Australia cash rate target

Source: RBA Statistical Tables F1 / F1.1, series FIRMMCRTD and FIRMMCRT. Licence: RBA disclaimer: data may be used with attribution; not for unauthorised commercial redistribution of raw tables (terms). Files: data/raw/rba-f01d.xlsx + data/raw/rba-f01hist.xlsx.

Reading this series

The Australian cash rate target is set by the Reserve Bank of Australia's board and is the overnight interest rate the RBA targets in the money market. The headline uses the latest daily target from RBA table F1, series FIRMMCRTD; the long chart and history use the monthly average series FIRMMCRT from F1.1, which reaches back to 1990. The distinction matters: the daily target is the current policy setting, while the monthly averages are the historical record used for the summary statistics.

The chart is stepped because the target changes only at board decisions. Read the headline, then the "versus the previous reading" line, which the page replaces with the date of the last actual move when the target has been unchanged. Mean, median, low and high are arithmetic summaries of the observations shown, so a long period at one setting pulls them toward it. Chart and Table show the same series two ways, the range buttons filter the window without recalculating, and Explore adds zoom and pan on request.

About this desk

The Norway desk leads with Norges Bank's policy rate, styringsrenten, from the BIS central bank policy rate series for Norway, then Sweden, ECB and UK rates. Since 1993 the series is the sight-deposit rate; earlier it is the overnight lending rate. The BIS joins these instruments into one comparable policy measure, drawn as daily steps because the rate changes only at Norges Bank's meetings. It is a policy rate, not a mortgage or deposit rate.

All desks show the same series in a different order, so the figures do not change when you switch. Values are republished with attribution to the BIS, and this page is not an official BIS publication. No Norwegian retail lending or deposit series is ingested, so those pages are absent rather than estimated. Nothing here is financial advice, and readings may lag their source.