Taiwan CBC discount rate

Source: CBC Statistical Database API, EG28D01en (discount rate, daily changes). Licence: Open Government Data License, version 1.0 (OGDL-Taiwan-1.0) (terms). Files: data/raw/cbc-discount-rate.json.

Reading this series

Taiwan's discount rate is the policy rate of the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan), set by its board and published in the CBC Statistical Database as series EG28D01en. This page shows it as a daily step series from 1989, with the rate flat between board meetings and changing on decision dates. The discount rate is the rate at which banks can borrow from the CBC against eligible paper; it is a policy instrument, not a mortgage or deposit rate, and the CBC also operates other facilities.

Read the headline with its as-of date, then the "versus the previous reading" line. When the board has left the rate unchanged, 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 readings in this build, so a long period at one setting pulls them toward it. Chart and Table present the same series two ways, the range buttons only filter what is drawn, and Explore adds zoom and pan on request.

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.