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Rate History

Prime rate, monthly average (Bank of Canada historical series, discontinued 2019)

The prime rate's long memory: a monthly series reaching back to 1935 and discontinued in 2019, kept because it is the only window this record holds on the price of credit before living memory.

Source: Bank of Canada Valet API | Series code V122495 | Captured 2026-11-14 | 1017 points, 1935-01-01 to 2019-09-01. Values are printed exactly as the source publishes them.

The series as a chart

High 22.75Low 2.251935-01-01: 5.52019-09-01: 3.95

The chart is drawn from the same points printed in full in the record below it: no point is added, averaged or smoothed, and the record remains the table.

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2007-07-016.25
2007-08-016.25
2007-09-016.25
2007-10-016.25
2007-11-016.25
2007-12-016.0
2008-01-015.75
2008-02-015.75
2008-03-015.25
2008-04-014.75
2008-05-014.75
2008-06-014.75
2008-07-014.75
2008-08-014.75
2008-09-014.75
2008-10-014.0
2008-11-014.0
2008-12-013.5
2009-01-013.0
2009-02-013.0
2009-03-012.5
2009-04-012.25
2009-05-012.25
2009-06-012.25
2009-07-012.25
2009-08-012.25
2009-09-012.25
2009-10-012.25
2009-11-012.25
2009-12-012.25
2010-01-012.25
2010-02-012.25
2010-03-012.25
2010-04-012.25
2010-05-012.25
2010-06-012.5
2010-07-012.75
2010-08-012.75
2010-09-013.0
2010-10-013.0
2010-11-013.0
2010-12-013.0
2011-01-013.0
2011-02-013.0
2011-03-013.0
2011-04-013.0
2011-05-013.0
2011-06-013.0
2011-07-013.0
2011-08-013.0
2011-09-013.0
2011-10-013.0
2011-11-013.0
2011-12-013.0
2012-01-013.0
2012-02-013.0
2012-03-013.0
2012-04-013.0
2012-05-013.0
2012-06-013.0
2012-07-013.0
2012-08-013.0
2012-09-013.0
2012-10-013.0
2012-11-013.0
2012-12-013.0
2013-01-013.0
2013-02-013.0
2013-03-013.0
2013-04-013.0
2013-05-013.0
2013-06-013.0
2013-07-013.0
2013-08-013.0
2013-09-013.0
2013-10-013.0
2013-11-013.0
2013-12-013.0
2014-01-013.0
2014-02-013.0
2014-03-013.0
2014-04-013.0
2014-05-013.0
2014-06-013.0
2014-07-013.0
2014-08-013.0
2014-09-013.0
2014-10-013.0
2014-11-013.0
2014-12-013.0
2015-01-012.85
2015-02-012.85
2015-03-012.85
2015-04-012.85
2015-05-012.85
2015-06-012.85
2015-07-012.7
2015-08-012.7
2015-09-012.7
2015-10-012.7
2015-11-012.7
2015-12-012.7
2016-01-012.7
2016-02-012.7
2016-03-012.7
2016-04-012.7
2016-05-012.7
2016-06-012.7
2016-07-012.7
2016-08-012.7
2016-09-012.7
2016-10-012.7
2016-11-012.7
2016-12-012.7
2017-01-012.7
2017-02-012.7
2017-03-012.7
2017-04-012.7
2017-05-012.7
2017-06-012.7
2017-07-012.95
2017-08-012.95
2017-09-013.2
2017-10-013.2
2017-11-013.2
2017-12-013.2
2018-01-013.45
2018-02-013.45
2018-03-013.45
2018-04-013.45
2018-05-013.45
2018-06-013.45
2018-07-013.7
2018-08-013.7
2018-09-013.7
2018-10-013.95
2018-11-013.95
2018-12-013.95
2019-01-013.95
2019-02-013.95
2019-03-013.95
2019-04-013.95
2019-05-013.95
2019-06-013.95
2019-07-013.95
2019-08-013.95
2019-09-013.95