The Effective Federal Funds Rate in Its Own History

Series Deep-dive · generated 2026-09-02

Federal Funds Effective Rate from FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis).

Narrative

Federal Funds Effective Rate from FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis). The latest observed value as of 31 August 2026 is 3.63 percent, which sits at the 42.7 percentile of the 26360 observations in the series. The median across the same window is 4.26 percent. Only 11251 of the 26360 observations sit below the latest value. The series has closed below its median for the last 348 consecutive observations. The series has reached a comparable extreme 7 other times in the observed record. Over the observed window the series changed by 221.24%.

Selected figures

• Snapshot value: 3.63 Percent
• First value: 1.13 Percent
• Minimum: 0.04 Percent
• Maximum: 22.36 Percent
• Change over period: 221.24 %
• Observations: 26,360 points
• Percentile of latest: 42.7 pct-rank
• Median: 4.26 Percent

Sources and citations

• fred — as of 2026-08-31 — Public domain / FRED terms of use; credit Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

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