The benchmark interest rate in the United States was last recorded at 4.50 percent. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Fed Funds Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The benchmark interest rate in Sweden was last recorded at 2 percent. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Sweden Interest Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The benchmark interest rate in Japan was last recorded at 0.50 percent. This dataset provides - Japan Interest Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

United States CSI: Expected Interest Rates: Next Yr: Go Down data was reported at 4.000 % in May 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 6.000 % for Apr 2018. United States CSI: Expected Interest Rates: Next Yr: Go Down data is updated monthly, averaging 11.000 % from Jan 1978 (Median) to May 2018, with 485 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 54.000 % in Jun 1980 and a record low of 3.000 % in May 2014. United States CSI: Expected Interest Rates: Next Yr: Go Down data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by University of Michigan. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.H030: Consumer Sentiment Index: Unemployment, Interest Rates, Prices and Government Expectations. The question was: No one can say for sure, but what do you think will happen to interest rates for borrowing money during the next 12 months -- will they go up, stay the same, or go down?

Graph and download economic data for 10-Year Real Interest Rate (REAINTRATREARAT10Y) from Jan 1982 to Aug 2025 about 10-year, interest rate, interest, real, rate, and USA.

The benchmark interest rate in Canada was last recorded at 2.75 percent. This dataset provides - Canada Interest Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Fixed 30-year mortgage rates in the United States averaged 6.77 percent in the week ending August 1 of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States MBA 30-Yr Mortgage Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Dominican Republic DO: Real Interest Rate data was reported at 14.089 % pa in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 14.145 % pa for 2015. Dominican Republic DO: Real Interest Rate data is updated yearly, averaging 12.035 % pa from Dec 1996 (Median) to 2016, with 21 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 20.428 % pa in 1999 and a record low of -8.633 % pa in 2004. Dominican Republic DO: Real Interest Rate data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Dominican Republic – Table DO.World Bank.WDI: Interest Rates. Real interest rate is the lending interest rate adjusted for inflation as measured by the GDP deflator. The terms and conditions attached to lending rates differ by country, however, limiting their comparability.; ; International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and data files using World Bank data on the GDP deflator.; ;

Croatia HR: Interest Rate Spread data was reported at 7.227 % pa in 2014. This records a decrease from the previous number of 7.726 % pa for 2013. Croatia HR: Interest Rate Spread data is updated yearly, averaging 9.048 % pa from Dec 1993 (Median) to 2014, with 22 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,064.296 % pa in 1993 and a record low of 6.320 % pa in 2001. Croatia HR: Interest Rate Spread data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Croatia – Table HR.World Bank.WDI: Interest Rates. Interest rate spread is the interest rate charged by banks on loans to private sector customers minus the interest rate paid by commercial or similar banks for demand, time, or savings deposits. The terms and conditions attached to these rates differ by country, however, limiting their comparability.;International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and data files.;Median;

This dataset contains news headlines relevant to key forex pairs: AUDUSD, EURCHF, EURUSD, GBPUSD, and USDJPY. The data was extracted from reputable platforms Forex Live and FXstreet over a period of 86 days, from January to May 2023. The dataset comprises 2,291 unique news headlines. Each headline includes an associated forex pair, timestamp, source, author, URL, and the corresponding article text. Data was collected using web scraping techniques executed via a custom service on a virtual machine. This service periodically retrieves the latest news for a specified forex pair (ticker) from each platform, parsing all available information. The collected data is then processed to extract details such as the article's timestamp, author, and URL. The URL is further used to retrieve the full text of each article. This data acquisition process repeats approximately every 15 minutes.

To ensure the reliability of the dataset, we manually annotated each headline for sentiment. Instead of solely focusing on the textual content, we ascertained sentiment based on the potential short-term impact of the headline on its corresponding forex pair. This method recognizes the currency market's acute sensitivity to economic news, which significantly influences many trading strategies. As such, this dataset could serve as an invaluable resource for fine-tuning sentiment analysis models in the financial realm.

We used three categories for annotation: 'positive', 'negative', and 'neutral', which correspond to bullish, bearish, and hold sentiments, respectively, for the forex pair linked to each headline. The following Table provides examples of annotated headlines along with brief explanations of the assigned sentiment.

Examples of Annotated Headlines


    Forex Pair
    Headline
    Sentiment
    Explanation




    GBPUSD 
    Diminishing bets for a move to 12400 
    Neutral
    Lack of strong sentiment in either direction


    GBPUSD 
    No reasons to dislike Cable in the very near term as long as the Dollar momentum remains soft 
    Positive
    Positive sentiment towards GBPUSD (Cable) in the near term


    GBPUSD 
    When are the UK jobs and how could they affect GBPUSD 
    Neutral
    Poses a question and does not express a clear sentiment


    JPYUSD
    Appropriate to continue monetary easing to achieve 2% inflation target with wage growth 
    Positive
    Monetary easing from Bank of Japan (BoJ) could lead to a weaker JPY in the short term due to increased money supply


    USDJPY
    Dollar rebounds despite US data. Yen gains amid lower yields 
    Neutral
    Since both the USD and JPY are gaining, the effects on the USDJPY forex pair might offset each other


    USDJPY
    USDJPY to reach 124 by Q4 as the likelihood of a BoJ policy shift should accelerate Yen gains 
    Negative
    USDJPY is expected to reach a lower value, with the USD losing value against the JPY


    AUDUSD

RBA Governor Lowe’s Testimony High inflation is damaging and corrosive

    Positive
    Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) expresses concerns about inflation. Typically, central banks combat high inflation with higher interest rates, which could strengthen AUD.

Moreover, the dataset includes two columns with the predicted sentiment class and score as predicted by the FinBERT model. Specifically, the FinBERT model outputs a set of probabilities for each sentiment class (positive, negative, and neutral), representing the model's confidence in associating the input headline with each sentiment category. These probabilities are used to determine the predicted class and a sentiment score for each headline. The sentiment score is computed by subtracting the negative class probability from the positive one.

The benchmark interest rate in Mexico was last recorded at 7.75 percent. This dataset provides - Mexico Interest Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Access to finance of small and medium enterprises. Topics: development of the following indicators in the last six months: turnover, profit, profit margin, level of debt, cash flow, investment, level of exports, research and development, market share; existence of a development plan for the next three years; most important element to ensure the company’s development: better qualified people on the market, social and fiscal regulations more suited to the sector of activity, greater production capacity, easy access to means of financing, stricter regulation regarding competition from outside the EU, advice and support service for the development of the company; use of selected types of financing in the past: overdraft, leasing or renting, discount or factoring, increase in capital dedicated to venture capital funds or to private individuals, loans shorter or longer than a 3-year term, public subsidies; approximate amount of last loan; recent request for a loan less than 25000 €; needs to be met by this loan; assessment of the difficulties to obtain a loan less than 25000 € compared to other forms of company’s financing; most important elements to resort a loan less than 25000 €: lower interest rates, simpler procedures for granting loans, less demanding on guarantee requirements, shorter delays for granting loans; assessment of the current financing of the company as sufficient; institutions contacted to obtain financing: banks, public institutions, private financing companies, leasing or renting companies, venture capital companies, private investors; expectations regarding the increase of the company’s capital within the next years; measures to increase the company’s capital: opening-up capital to private individual investors or to venture capital companies, management buy-out, going on the stock exchange, opening-up capital to the company’s employees; assessment of the access to bank loans as easy; assessment of the development of the impediments to access bank loans compared to a few years ago; reasons that impede obtaining a bank loan compared to a few years ago: interest rates are too high, banks request too much information, loan granting procedures are too long, administrative side of the loan application is very demanding; approval of the following statements: loan is needed to conclude projects, unsuitable offers from banks, risk-averseness of banks, banker understands specifics of the company’s sector, banker sufficiently supports the company in terms of its financing; assessment how the company’s needs regarding financial management are met internally; preferred sources of information on financing. Demography: information about the company: number of employees, development of the number of employees since 2004; company size; main activity of the company; year of company establishment; shareholding of the company; turnover of the company in the own country in the last fiscal year. Additionally coded was: country; respondent ID; language of the interview; weighting factor. Unternehmensfinanzierung. Nutzung von Krediten. Schwierigkeiten bei Kreditaufnahme. Vorgehen von Kreditinstituten in Bezug auf Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten. Finanzierungsberatung. Themen: Finanzielle Situation des Unternehmens; 3-Jahres Plan; wichtigste Maßnahmen zur Festigung des Unternehmens: qualifizierte Mitarbeiter, der Branche angepasstere soziale und steuerliche Bestimmungen, größere Produktionskapazität, einfacher Zugang zu Finanzierungsmitteln, strengere Regulierung der Konkurrenz aus Nicht-EU-Ländern, Beratung und Unterstützung für die Unternehmensentwicklung; Inanspruchnahme finanzieller Leistungen (Dispositionskredit, Leasing/Mieten, Diskont/Factoring, Kapitalerhöhung für Wagniskapitalfonds und für Privatpersonen, (Kurz-)Darlehen, öffentliche Fördermittel); Höhe des letzten Kreditantrags; Verwendungsabsicht für den Kredit; Schwierigkeiten einen Kredit unter 250.000 Euro zu bekommen im Vergleich zu anderen Finanzierungsformen; Gründe für Kreditaufnahme (niedrigere Zinssätze, einfacherer Bewilligungsvorgang, geringere Anforderung auf Kreditsicherheit, kürzere Bearbeitungszeit für Kreditbewilligung); Einschätzung der Unternehmensfinanzierung als ausreichend für Projektrealisierung; primäre Anlaufstellen für den Erhalt von Finanzmitteln; Erschließungsmöglichkeiten für Kapital um finanzielle Bedürfnisse des Unternehmens zu erfüllen; Wege für die Kapitalerschließung des Unternehmens; Einschätzung der Schwierigkeit heutzutage einen Kredit bei Banken zu bekommen im Vergleich zu früher; Gründe, warum es heutzutage schwieriger ist einen Kredit bei einer Bank zu bekommen; Einstellung zu: Kreditabhängigkeit bei Durchführung von Projekten, nicht auf die Belange des Unternehmens zugeschnittene Angebote der Banken; geringe Risikobereitschaft von Banken bei Kreditvergabe; Verständnis für die spezifischen Belange der eigenen Branche durch den zuständigen Bankangestellten; ausreichende Unterstützung bei der Finanzierung durch die Bank; Beurteilung des firmeninternen Finanzmanagements; primäre Anlaufstelle für Finanzierungsberatung. Demographie: Angaben zum Unternehmen: Anzahl der Mitarbeiter, Entwicklung der Anzahl der Beschäftigten seit 2004, Unternehmensgröße, Hauptgeschäftsfeld des Unternehmens, Gründungsjahr, Aktienanteil des Unternehmens; Jahresumsatz des Unternehmens im letzten Geschäftsjahr. Zusätzlich verkodet wurde: Land; Befragten-ID; Interviewsprache; Gewichtungsfaktor.

The benchmark interest rate in China was last recorded at 3 percent. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - China Interest Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

This table contains 71 series, with data starting from 1934 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...), Rates (71 items: Bank rate; last Tuesday or last Thursday; Bank rate; Chartered bank administered interest rates - prime business; Chartered bank - consumer loan rate ...).

The Clean Water State Revolving Fund loans are being provided in this layer to allow the public to access detailed information on each project funded through the program. These loans are provided at interest rates well below the market rate, ranging from 20 to 80 percent of the 20 GO bond index and averaging approximately 50 percent. The program made the first loan in 1989 and has since provided approximately $4 billion in low interest loans. Capitalization of the program comes primarily from federal grants, but state matching funds of 20 percent are required. Assistance is generally limited to local governments, however, private entities are eligible for non-point source projects and projects in the National Estuary Program.Please reference the metadata for contact information.

The benchmark interest rate in Norway was last recorded at 4.25 percent. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Norway Interest Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Content

The STLFSI measures the degree of financial stress in the markets and is constructed from 18 weekly data series: seven interest rate series, six yield spreads and five other indicators. Each of these variables captures some aspect of financial stress. Accordingly, as the level of financial stress in the economy changes, the data series are likely to move together.

How to Interpret the Index: The average value of the index, which begins in late 1993, is designed to be zero. Thus, zero is viewed as representing normal financial market conditions. Values below zero suggest below-average financial market stress, while values above zero suggest above-average financial market stress.

More information: For additional information on the STLFSI and its construction, see "Measuring Financial Market Stress" (https://files.stlouisfed.org/research/publications/es/10/ES1002.pdf) and the related appendix (https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/publications/net/NETJan2010Appendix.pdf).

See this list (https://www.stlouisfed.org/news-releases/st-louis-fed-financial-stress-index/stlfsi-key) of the components that are used to construct the STLFSI.

As of 07/15/2010 the Vanguard Financial Exchange-Traded Fund series has been replaced with the S&P 500 Financials Index. This change was made to facilitate a more timely and automated updating of the FSI. Switching from the Vanguard series to the S&P series produced no meaningful change in the index.

Copyright, 2016, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Context

This is a dataset from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis hosted by the Federal Reserve Economic Database (FRED). FRED has a data platform found here and they update their information according to the frequency that the data updates. Explore the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the St. Louis Fed organization page!

• Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily.

• Observation Start: 1993-12-31

• Observation End : 2019-11-29

Acknowledgements

This dataset is maintained using FRED's API and Kaggle's API.

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30 Year Mortgage Rate in the United States decreased to 6.58 percent in August 14 from 6.63 percent in the previous week. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for the United States 30 Year Mortgage Rate.

The benchmark interest rate in Taiwan was last recorded at 2 percent. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Taiwan Interest Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The benchmark interest rate in Australia was last recorded at 3.60 percent. This dataset provides - Australia Interest Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.