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 United Kingdom desk leads with Bank Rate, the Bank of England's policy rate, then SONIA, the sterling overnight market benchmark the Bank publishes but does not set. Euro-area, US, Canadian and Australian rates follow, with the rest of the build's series after them. All desks republish the same official series; this desk only reorders the menu and the wording, so the figures do not change when you switch desks.

Both UK series come from Bank of England statistical tables and are republished under the Bank's open-data terms, with attribution. Bank Rate is a policy setting that moves at MPC decisions; SONIA is a transaction-based market rate that moves daily. The build does not publish a UK retail mortgage or savings rate, because no such official series is ingested here — those pages are absent rather than estimated. This is not financial advice.