Norway policy rate

Source: BIS central bank policy rates (WS_CBPOL), Norway daily. Licence: BIS statistics: unrestricted reuse with attribution; inclusion must not add a charge to users. This page is not an official BIS publication (terms). Files: data/raw/bis-no-policy.json.

Reading this series

Norway's policy rate, styringsrenten, is set by Norges Bank and is the rate the central bank uses to steer short-term money-market rates. This page uses the BIS central bank policy rate series for Norway (WS_CBPOL), compiled with Norges Bank. Since 1993 the series is the sight-deposit rate; the earlier stretch is the overnight lending rate, which was the policy instrument before that. Changes come only at Norges Bank's policy meetings, so the series is drawn as daily steps.

Read the headline with its as-of date, then the "versus the previous reading" line. Where the rate has been unchanged, the page surfaces the date of the last actual move rather than a run of zero values. Mean, median, low and high are arithmetic summaries of the observations in this build, not official figures. Chart and Table present one series two ways, the range buttons only filter what is drawn, and Explore adds zoom and pan on request. The policy rate is not a mortgage or deposit rate, and this page is not an official BIS publication.

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.