Cash Rate

Bank of Canada

Canada target for the overnight rate

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2.25%

−0.25 pp last change (29 Oct 2025)

As of 15 Sep 2026 | Daily (policy rate; changes on Bank of Canada decision days)

Mean
1.50%
Median
1.00%
Min
0.25% 21 Apr 2009
Max
5.00% 13 Jul 2023
DateRate
15 Sep 20262.25
31 Aug 20262.25
31 Jul 20262.25
30 Jun 20262.25
29 May 20262.25
30 Apr 20262.25
31 Mar 20262.25
27 Feb 20262.25
30 Jan 20262.25
31 Dec 20252.25
28 Nov 20252.25
31 Oct 20252.25
30 Sep 20252.50
29 Aug 20252.75
31 Jul 20252.75
30 Jun 20252.75
30 May 20252.75
30 Apr 20252.75
31 Mar 20252.75
28 Feb 20253.00
31 Jan 20253.00
31 Dec 20243.25
29 Nov 20243.75
31 Oct 20243.75

About the overnight rate target

Bank of Canada target for the overnight rate (V39079). Current: 2.25% on 15 Sep 2026. Daily series from the BoC Valet API; chart is stepped at policy decisions.

From 21 Apr 2009 to 15 Sep 2026 (4,525 observations): mean 1.50%, median 1.00%; low 0.25% (21 Apr 2009), high 5.00% (13 Jul 2023). Not a mortgage or deposit rate.

Source: Bank of Canada Valet API, series V39079 (target for the overnight rate). Licence: Bank of Canada website terms: free use, copy and distribute with attribution (terms). Files: data/raw/boc-overnight-rate.json.

Reading this series

Canada's target for the overnight rate is set by the Bank of Canada's Governing Council and is the policy rate the Bank aims to keep the overnight market near. The page uses the Bank of Canada Valet API series V39079, with a daily record from 2009. Because the Bank changes the target only at fixed announcement dates, the chart is drawn as steps. The target is the policy anchor; the separate CORRA page covers the market rate that settles overnight Canadian repo trades.

Read the headline with its as-of date, then the "versus the previous reading" line. When the target has been unchanged for a while, 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 observations in this build, so a long hold at one setting pulls them toward it. Chart and Table present the series two ways, range buttons filter the drawn window only, and Explore loads zoom and pan on request. The overnight target is not a mortgage or deposit rate.

About this desk

The Japan desk leads with the BIS central bank policy rate series for Japan, compiled by the BIS with the Bank of Japan, then US, Korea and ECB rates. The BIS series follows whichever instrument the authorities treat as the policy rate in each period — today the uncollateralised overnight call rate — and is shown as daily steps from 1946. It is a compiled policy measure, not a mortgage or deposit rate.

All desks show the same official series in a different order; the figures do not change when you switch. Values are republished with attribution to the BIS, and this site is not an official BIS publication. The build ingests no Japanese retail lending series, so those pages are absent rather than estimated. Nothing here is financial advice, and readings may lag their source.