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Title: Discount Rate Changes: Historical Dates of Changes and Rates (DISCONTINUED) Series ID: DISCOUNT Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Release: Federal Reserve Bulletin Seasonal Adjustment: Not Applicable Frequency: Not Applicable Units: Percent
Date Range: 1934-02-02 to 2002-11-06
Last Updated: 2003-07-23 12:37 PM CT
Notes: Effective Date
Data before 1975 represent the date of the New York Fed discount rate
change, data after 1975 represent the date of the first Federal
Reserve bank discount rate change.
Source: Board of Governors: Banking and Monetary Statistics,
1914-1941, and 1941-1970; the Annual Statistical Digest, 1970-1979;
and the Federal Reserve Bulletin, 1978 - January 8, 2003.
**DISCONTINUED**
Please refer to
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2003/20030106/default.htm
for further information on the discontinuation of this series
effective January 9, 2003.
DATE VALUE
1934-02-02 1.50
1937-08-27 1.00
1942-10-30 0.50
1946-04-25 1.00
1948-01-12 1.25
1948-08-13 1.50
1950-08-21 1.75
1953-01-16 2.00
1954-02-05 1.75
1954-04-16 1.50
1955-04-15 1.75
1955-08-05 2.00
1955-09-09 2.25
1955-11-18 2.50
1956-04-13 2.75
1956-08-24 3.00
1957-08-23 3.50
1957-11-15 3.00
1958-01-24 2.75
1958-03-07 2.25
1958-04-18 1.75
1958-09-12 2.00
1958-11-07 2.50
1959-03-06 3.00
1959-05-29 3.50
1959-09-11 4.00
1960-06-10 3.50
1960-08-12 3.00
1963-07-17 3.50
1964-11-24 4.00
1965-12-06 4.50
1967-04-07 4.00
1967-11-20 4.50
1968-03-22 5.00
1968-04-19 5.50
1968-08-30 5.25
1968-12-18 5.50
1969-04-04 6.00
1970-11-13 5.75
1970-12-04 5.50
1971-01-08 5.25
1971-01-22 5.00
1971-02-19 4.75
1971-07-16 5.00
1971-11-19 4.75
1971-12-17 4.50
1973-01-15 5.00
1973-02-26 5.50
1973-05-04 5.75
1973-05-11 6.00
1973-06-11 6.50
1973-07-02 7.00
1973-08-14 7.50
1974-04-25 8.00
1974-12-09 7.75
1975-01-10 7.25
1975-02-05 6.75
1975-03-10 6.25
1975-05-16 6.00
1976-01-16 5.50
1976-11-22 5.25
1977-08-30 5.75
1977-10-26 6.00
1978-01-09 6.50
1978-05-11 7.00
1978-07-03 7.25
1978-08-21 7.75
1978-09-22 8.00
1978-10-16 8.50
1978-11-01 9.50
1979-07-20 10.00
1979-08-17 10.50
1979-09-19 11.00
1979-10-08 12.00
1980-02-15 13.00
1980-05-29 12.00
1980-06-13 11.00
1980-07-28 10.00
1980-09-26 11.00
1980-11-17 12.00
1980-12-05 13.00
1981-05-05 14.00
1981-11-02 13.00
1981-12-04 12.00
1982-07-20 11.50
1982-08-02 11.00
1982-08-16 10.50
1982-08-27 10.00
1982-10-12 9.50
1982-11-22 9.00
1982-12-14 8.50
1984-04-09 9.00
1984-11-21 8.50
1984-12-24 8.00
1985-05-20 7.50
1986-03-07 7.00
1986-04-21 6.50
1986-07-11 6.00
1986-08-21 5.50
1987-09-04 6.00
1988-08-09 6.50
1989-02-24 7.00
1990-12-19 6.50
1991-02-01 6.00
1991-04-30 5.50
1991-09-13 5.00
1991-11-06 4.50
1991-12-20 3.50
1992-07-02 3.00
1994-05-17 3.50
1994-08-16 4.00
1994-11-15 4.75
1995-02-01 5.25
1996-01-31 5.00
1998-10-15 4.75
1998-11-17 4.50
1999-08-24 4.75
1999-11-16 5.00
2000-02-02 5.25
2000-03-21 5.50
2000-05-16 6.00
2001-01-03 5.75
2001-01-04 5.50
2001-01-31 5.00
2001-03-20 4.50
2001-04-18 4.00
2001-05-15 3.50
2001-06-27 3.25
2001-08-21 3.00
2001-09-17 2.50
2001-10-02 2.00
2001-11-06 1.50
2001-12-11 1.25
2002-11-06 0.75