The benchmark interest rate in the United States was last recorded at 4.25 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 Canada was last recorded at 2.50 percent. This dataset provides - Canada Interest Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The benchmark interest rate in the United Kingdom was last recorded at 4 percent. This dataset provides - United Kingdom Interest Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar 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.

Monetary policy is generally regarded as a central element in the attempts of policy makers to attenuate business-cycle fluctuations. According to the New Keynesian paradigm, central banks are able to stimulate or depress aggregate demand in the short run by adjusting their nominal interest rate targets. The effects of interest rate changes on aggregate consumption, the largest component of aggregate demand, are well understood in the context of this paradigm, on which the canonical "workhorse'' model used in monetary policy analysis is grounded. A key feature of the model is that aggregate consumption is fully described by the amount of goods consumed by a representative household. A decline in the policy rate for instance implies that the real interest rate declines, the representative household saves less and hence increase its demand for consumption. At the same time, general equilibrium effects let labour income grow causing consumption to increase further. However, the mechanism outlined above ignores a considerable amount of empirically-observed heterogeneity among households. For example, households with a higher earnings elasticity to interest rate changes benefit more from a rate cut than those with a lower elasticity; households with large debt positions are at a relative advantage over households with large bond holdings; and households with low exposure to inflation are relatively better off than those holding a sizeable amount of nominal assets. As a result, the contribution to the aggregate consumption response differs substantially across households, implying that monetary expansions and tightenings produce relative "winners'' and relative "losers''. The aim of the project laid out in this proposal is to give a disaggregated account of the heterogeneous effects of monetary-policy induced interest rate changes on household consumption and a detailed analysis of the channels underlying them. Additionally, it seeks to draw conclusions about the determinants of the strength of the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. To do so, it relies on a large panel comprising detailed data from the universe of all households residing in Norway between 1993 and 2015 supplemented with additional micro-data provided by the European Commission. I will be assisted by two project partners, Pascal Paul who is a member of the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Martin Holm who is affiliated with the Research Unit of Statistics Norway and the University of Oslo. In addition, I would like to collaborate with and help train a doctoral student based at the University of Lausanne on this project. Existing empirical studies of the consumption response to monetary policy at the micro level rely on survey data. Therefore, they are subject to a number of severe data limitations. The surveys employed typically have either no or only a short panel dimension, suffer from attrition, include only limited information on income and wealth, are top-coded, and contain a significant amount of measurement error. The administrative data set provided to us by Statistics Norway suffers from none of these issues, implying that we are in a unique position to evaluate the household-level effects of policy rate changes. In a first step, we use forecasts published by the Norwegian central bank to derive monetary policy shocks that are robust to the simultaneity problem inherent in the identification of the effects of monetary policy following Romer and Romer (2004). We then confront the micro-data with the estimated shocks to study the consumption response along different segments of the income and wealth distribution and to test the importance of heterogeneity in labour earnings, financial income, liquid assets, inflation exposure and interest rate exposure among others. The findings will be of high relevance as they will not only allow us to evaluate channels hypothesised in the analytical literature, improve our understanding of the monetary policy transmission mechanism and its distributional consequences but also serve as a benchmark for structural models built both by theorists and practitioners.

Water Quality Review Implementation Map for 2024 where maximum stocking rate of 220 kg livestock manure nitrogen per hectare applies for nitrates derogation holdings in these areas for 2024, combined with additional areas, where the stocking rate limit of 220 kg livestock manure nitrogen per hectare will apply for nitrates derogation holdings in these areas with effect from December 2025. This means for 2025, derogation farmers in these additional areas will have a limit of 247.5 rather than 250kg livestock manure nitrogen per hectare in 2025. The additional areas are the outcome of the 5th Nitrates Action Programme review, introduced as an amendment (SI No 42 of 2025) to the Good Agricultural Practice for the Protection of Waters Regulations (SI No 113 of 2022, as amended). These areas are where the EPA (Environment Protection Agency) have identified a need for nitrate reduction measures as a priority to improve water but that were not considered under the European Commission’s criteria for the two-year review of water quality that took place in 2023, i.e. areas that are not within the Water Quality Review Implementation Map for 2024.

This dataset includes all the data and R code needed to reproduce the analyses in a forthcoming manuscript:Copes, W. E., Q. D. Read, and B. J. Smith. Environmental influences on drying rate of spray applied disinfestants from horticultural production services. PhytoFrontiers, DOI pending.Study description: Instructions for disinfestants typically specify a dose and a contact time to kill plant pathogens on production surfaces. A problem occurs when disinfestants are applied to large production areas where the evaporation rate is affected by weather conditions. The common contact time recommendation of 10 min may not be achieved under hot, sunny conditions that promote fast drying. This study is an investigation into how the evaporation rates of six commercial disinfestants vary when applied to six types of substrate materials under cool to hot and cloudy to sunny weather conditions. Initially, disinfestants with low surface tension spread out to provide 100% coverage and disinfestants with high surface tension beaded up to provide about 60% coverage when applied to hard smooth surfaces. Disinfestants applied to porous materials were quickly absorbed into the body of the material, such as wood and concrete. Even though disinfestants evaporated faster under hot sunny conditions than under cool cloudy conditions, coverage was reduced considerably in the first 2.5 min under most weather conditions and reduced to less than or equal to 50% coverage by 5 min. Dataset contents: This dataset includes R code to import the data and fit Bayesian statistical models using the model fitting software CmdStan, interfaced with R using the packages brms and cmdstanr. The models (one for 2022 and one for 2023) compare how quickly different spray-applied disinfestants dry, depending on what chemical was sprayed, what surface material it was sprayed onto, and what the weather conditions were at the time. Next, the statistical models are used to generate predictions and compare mean drying rates between the disinfestants, surface materials, and weather conditions. Finally, tables and figures are created. These files are included:Drying2022.csv: drying rate data for the 2022 experimental runWeather2022.csv: weather data for the 2022 experimental runDrying2023.csv: drying rate data for the 2023 experimental runWeather2023.csv: weather data for the 2023 experimental rundisinfestant_drying_analysis.Rmd: RMarkdown notebook with all data processing, analysis, and table creation codedisinfestant_drying_analysis.html: rendered output of notebookMS_figures.R: additional R code to create figures formatted for journal requirementsfit2022_discretetime_weather_solar.rds: fitted brms model object for 2022. This will allow users to reproduce the model prediction results without having to refit the model, which was originally fit on a high-performance computing clusterfit2023_discretetime_weather_solar.rds: fitted brms model object for 2023data_dictionary.xlsx: descriptions of each column in the CSV data files

Site selection for cervical stabilization surgery in horses with spinal ataxia frequently relies on measurements derived from radiographic myelography. A variety of measurement criteria exist and can provide conflicting results. The main objectives of this study were to assess the correlation between two commonly used myelographic measures, dorsal contrast column reduction (DCCR) and dural diameter reduction (DDR), and their association with previously selected operative sites in a population of horses operated at a tertiary clinic. Secondary objectives were to determine if articular process joint (APJ) atrophy occurred in a subset of operated horses with radiographic follow-up, and to describe complications of cervical stabilization surgery and long term outcomes. The study was primarily cross-sectional using previously recorded medical information and images from horses operated between 2008 and 2022: three masked raters assessed previously acquired pre-operative myelograms obtained in neutral, flexed and extended neck positions from horses that had subsequently undergone stabilization surgery consisting of cervical interbody fusion via a Kerf-cut cylinder technique at one or two sites. A veterinary radiologist evaluated changes in APJ in radiographs obtained in a subset of horses re-evaluated >18 months after surgery. DCCR was unremarkable at nearly all articulations in all horses, while DDR met reduction criteria at over 50% of articulations in flexed position. Neither DCCR nor DDR distinguished operated from non-operated sites at most intervertebral junctions, except at the C6-7 articulation in neutral and extended position. The two measures were also poorly correlated at most sites and in most positions. Surgical complications included a high incidence of laryngeal hemiplegia. Comparison of operated to non-operated sites within individuals radiographed years later showed consistent, mildly reduced APJ opacity at most operated sites without a consistent decrease in APJ height or area ratios. Our results suggest that DCCR and DDR measures did not reliably predict surgical site selection in this surgical cohort except at C6-7, and that the two measures yielded conflicting diagnostic classification at many sites and positions. Complication rates from stabilization surgery were high; and predictable reduction in APJ height or area after surgery was not demonstrated by radiography in this study.

Inflation Rate in the United States increased to 2.90 percent in August from 2.70 percent in July of 2025. This dataset provides - United States Inflation Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

30 Year Mortgage Rate in the United States decreased to 6.26 percent in September 18 from 6.35 percent in the previous week. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for the United States 30 Year Mortgage Rate.

Unemployment Rate in the United States increased to 4.30 percent in August from 4.20 percent in July of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

This dataset provides values for INTEREST RATE reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United States expanded 3.30 percent in the second quarter of 2025 over the previous quarter. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States GDP Growth Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Corporate Profits in the United States increased to 3266.20 USD Billion in the second quarter of 2025 from 3203.60 USD Billion in the first quarter of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Corporate Profits - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Unemployment Rate in Canada increased to 7.10 percent in August from 6.90 percent in July of 2025. This dataset provides - Canada Unemployment Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Retail Sales in the United States increased 0.60 percent in August of 2025 over the previous month. This dataset provides - U.S. December Retail Sales Increased More Than Forecast - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The DXY exchange rate fell to 97.4773 on September 22, 2025, down 0.17% from the previous session. Over the past month, the United States Dollar has weakened 0.97%, and is down by 3.43% over the last 12 months. United States Dollar - values, historical data, forecasts and news - updated on September of 2025.

Inflation Rate in Philippines increased to 1.50 percent in August from 0.90 percent in July of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Philippines Inflation Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.