Canada target for the overnight 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 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.