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FED Federal Funds Rate, American central bank’s interest rate

Charts - historic FED interest rates

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The current American interest rate FED (base rate) is 5.250 %

Federal Reserve System (FED)

The central bank of the United States is the FED. FED stands for Federal Reserve System but this is also referred to as the Federal Reserve for short. Although the FED is an independent government institution, the American central bank is owned by a number of large banks and therefore not by the state. The main governing body of the FED is the Board of Governors which consists of 7 members who are appointed by the President of the United States. In addition to the national FED there are 12 regional Reserve Banks. 5 representatives of these regional reserve banks together with the 7 members of the board of governors make up the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee). The primary responsibility of the FOMC is to supervise open market operations through monetary policy. One important responsibility of the Federal Reserve is to safeguard the stability of the United States’ financial system. The FED also has various other functions, including:
  • ‘managing’ the national money supply by means of monetary policy with the aim of:
  • supervision and regulation of the private banks;
  • strengthening the United States’ position in the global economy;
  • preventing or resolving banking panics.

Federal funds rate

When reference is made to the US interest rate this often refers to the Federal Funds Rate. The Federal Funds Rate is the interest rate which banks charge one another for 1 day (overnight) lending. This American base rate is set by the market and is not explicitly laid down by the FED. By withdrawing or adding funds to the money supply the FED tries to bring the effective federal funds rate into line with the interest rate that it is striving for. If the FED’s monetary policy alters the base rate, that usually affects the interest rate on various products such as mortgages, loans and savings.

This page shows the current and historic values of the FED’s Federal Funds rate.

For a summary of the current interest rates of a large number of central banks please click here.

Tables - current and historic American central bank interest rates

FED latest interest rate changes

 change date percentage
 may 03 2023 5.250 %
 march 22 2023 5.000 %
 february 01 2023 4.750 %
 december 14 2022 4.500 %
 november 02 2022 4.000 %
 september 21 2022 3.250 %
 july 28 2022 2.500 %
 june 15 2022 1.750 %
 may 04 2022 1.000 %
 march 16 2022 0.500 %

Summary of other central banks’ interest rates

 central bank interest rate region percentage date
 FED interest rate United States 5.250 % 05-03-2023
 RBA interest rate Australia 3.850 % 05-02-2023
 BACEN interest rate Brazil 13.750 % 08-04-2022
 BoE interest rate Great Britain 4.500 % 05-11-2023
 BOC interest rate Canada 4.500 % 01-25-2023
 PBC interest rate China 3.650 % 08-22-2022
 ECB interest rate Europe 3.750 % 05-04-2023
 BoJ interest rate Japan -0.100 % 02-01-2016
 CBR interest rate Russia 7.500 % 09-16-2022
 SARB interest rate South Africa 8.250 % 05-25-2023

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American interest rate (Fed)5.25 %05-03-2023
Australian interest rate (RBA)3.85 %05-02-2023
British interest rate (BoE)4.50 %05-11-2023
Canadian interest rate (BOC)4.50 %01-25-2023
European interest rate (ECB)3.75 %05-04-2023
Japanese interest rate (BoJ)-0.10 %02-01-2016
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