Taiwan CBC discount rate

Source: CBC Statistical Database API, EG28D01en (discount rate, daily changes). Licence: Open Government Data License, version 1.0 (OGDL-Taiwan-1.0) (terms). Files: data/raw/cbc-discount-rate.json.

Reading this series

Taiwan's discount rate is the policy rate of the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan), set by its board and published in the CBC Statistical Database as series EG28D01en. This page shows it as a daily step series from 1989, with the rate flat between board meetings and changing on decision dates. The discount rate is the rate at which banks can borrow from the CBC against eligible paper; it is a policy instrument, not a mortgage or deposit rate, and the CBC also operates other facilities.

Read the headline with its as-of date, then the "versus the previous reading" line. When the board has left the rate unchanged, the page shows the date of the last actual move rather than a row of zero changes. Mean, median, low and high are arithmetic summaries of the daily readings in this build, so a long period at one setting pulls them toward it. Chart and Table present the same series two ways, the range buttons only filter what is drawn, and Explore adds zoom and pan on request.

About this desk

The Switzerland desk leads with the SNB policy rate, from the BIS central bank policy rate series for Switzerland, then ECB, UK and US rates. The BIS series is the SNB policy rate from June 2019, the mid-point of the SNB's target range for the three-month Libor from 2000 to 2019, and the discount rate before that — stitched into one comparable series and drawn as daily steps. It is a policy rate, not a mortgage or deposit rate.

All desks show the same build-wide series in a different order, so switching desks changes the menu, not the figures. Values are republished with attribution to the BIS, and this page is not an official BIS publication. The build ingests no Swiss retail rate series, so none is shown. This is not financial advice, and readings may lag their source.