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Federal Funds Target Rate (DISCONTINUED) (DFEDTAR)
Published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis on September 19, 2026.
Series definition and the boundary between the former single target and the target range.
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… <meta name="dc.extra" content="Data for the period prior to 1994 come from the working paper "A New Federal Funds Rate Target Series: September 27, 1982 - December 31, 1993" (Thornton, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2005, http://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/2005/2005-032.pdf). Due to an error in the paper values from April 2, 1986 - April 20, 1986 were adjusted manually to 7.3125%. Data from 1994 to the present are derived from FOMC meeting transcripts and FOMC meeting statements, http://www.federalreserve.gov/fomc/. Effective December 16, 2008, target rate is reported as a range. Current data at https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFEDTARU and https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFEDTARL "> <meta name="citation_date" content="2015-05-04"> <meta name="dcterms:PeriodOfTime" content="start:1982-09-27; end:2008-12-15;"> <meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" name="viewport"> <!--<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">--> …
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