Key ECB interest rates
(levels in percentages) |
|
| Date |
Main refinancing operations |
|
| |
|
Fixed rate tenders
Fixed rate |
Variable rate tenders
Minimum bid rate |
| |
With effect from |
level |
level |
|
| 2001 |
| |
8 Nov |
|
3.25 |
| |
18 Sep |
|
3.75 |
| |
31 Aug |
|
4.25 |
| |
11 May |
|
4.50 |
| 2000 |
6 Oct |
|
4.75 |
| |
1 Sept |
|
4.50 |
| |
1 Sept |
|
4.50 |
| |
28 Jun* |
|
4.25 |
| |
9 Jun |
4.25 |
|
| |
28 April |
3.75 |
|
| |
17 March |
3.50 |
|
| |
4 Feb |
3.25 |
|
| 1999 |
5 Nov |
3.00 |
|
| |
9 Apr |
2.50 |
|
| |
22 Jan |
2.50 |
|
|
|
*On 8 June 2000 the ECB announced that starting from the operation to be settled on June 28 2000, the main refinancing operations of the Eurosystem would be conducted as variable rate tenders. The minimum bid refers to the minimum interest rate at which counterparties may place their bids |
