Representative closing yields for acceptances of the highest rated money center banks. Telerate, Inc. 8. An average of dealer offering rates on nationally traded certificates of deposit. Prime is one of several base rates used by banks to price short-term business loans. Rate for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Data are stop yields from uniform-price auctions, rounded to two decimal places.
Yields on actively traded issues adjusted to constant maturities. Unweighted average of rates on all outstanding bonds neither due nor callable in less than 10 years. Contract interest rates on commitments for fixed-rate first mortgages. These market yields are calculated from composites of quotations obtained by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This method provides a yield for a 10-year maturity, for example, even if no outstanding security has exactly 10 years remaining to maturity.