Interest Rates on International and Domestic Markets
methods, notes and classification
Explanatory Notes INTEREST RATES
ON INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC MARKETS
Statistical Content
The data contained in this database are the selected interest rates on the international and domestic markets that appear in the OECD publication Financial Statistics Monthly. Section 2 - Domestic Markets. Interest Rates, issued by the Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs.
These series are the most representative interest rates in each country: rates used as reference for establishing other rates, rates applying to the most important borrowing or lending instruments, rates revealing the state of tension or ease in a part of the capital market.
The international market interest rates are those of 3-month deposits in most Eurocurrencies, of 6- and 12-month deposits in Eurodollars, and the secondary market yield of international bonds denominated in dollars, Deutsche marks, guilders, French francs and ECU.
The domestic rates are grouped as follows:
i. Money Market:
1 . Official discount rates
2. Day-to-day money rates
3. Short-term bills rates
ii. Security Market:
1 . Bond yield (on primary and secondary markets)
2. Share yield
3. Price/earnings ratio
iii. Other Markets:
1 . Rates charged to borrowers
2. Rates paid to lenders.
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CLASSIFICATION PLAN:
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STRUCTURE OF THE CODE : XX / X / XXXXXX
SUB-CODES :
1 XX....... COUNTRY/AREA
2 ..X...... MARKET CODE
3 ...XXXXXX ALPHANUMERIC CODE
SUB-CODE 1 : COUNTRY
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00 International Market
12 Federal Republic of Germany
14 France
16 Italy
18 Netherlands
22 Belgium
26 United Kingdom
30 Denmark
32 Spain
42 United States of America
44 Canada
46 Japan
54 Australia
58 Norway
60 Sweden
64 Finland
68 Switzerland
70 Austria
SUB-CODE 2 : MARKET CODE
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M Money Market
S Security Market
O Other Markets
E Eurocurrency Markets
B International Bond Markets
SUB-CODE 3 : ALPHANUMERIC CODE
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EXPLANATORY NOTE:
The market code and the alphanumeric code form the so-called concept
code which is identical to the numbering system used in the printed
publication. The first character in the concept code refers to the
groups of interest rates in each market.
For example: The series indicative for "OFFICIAL DISCOUNT RATE" for
Germany is 12M1A.
To distinguish between series which are currently updated and
the discontinued series, the series indicatives for the discontinued
series end with a point (.), Z and - not always - a number.