The accompanying charts show the SCB as the benchmark against which individual currencies fluctuate. Figures 1 and 2 show the SCB against its components on two time-frames, and Figures 3 and 4 show the SCB against other sample currencies.

Figure 1 shows the EWI Stable Currency Benchmark against its components since 1971, the end of the Bretton Woods Accord when currencies were allowed to float freely.

Figure 2 shows the SCB against its components since 1988, once the post-socialistic New Zealand currency had stabilized.

Figure 5 shows the S&P, the Nikkei and the FTSE indexes against the SCB, factoring out local currency fluctuations to give you truly comparative values.