18-year continuously compounded instantaneous forward rate on Treasuries (per cent) - United States - Fed - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: US Treasury zero-coupon and forward rates (Federal Reserve)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the United States, the 18-year continuously compounded instantaneous forward rate on Treasuries was 5.92 per cent on 6 November 2026, compared to 5.86 on the previous day.
Sample. There are 11,319 data points overall in the daily time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time range extending from July 1981 to November 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: the forward rate had a mean value of 6.35 per cent; it achieved a maximum of 17.67 per cent on 9 November 1981; it reached its minimum of 1.53 per cent on 9 March 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Percentage points |
|---|---|
| 2026-11-04 | 5.82640 |
| 2026-11-05 | 5.85640 |
| 2026-11-06 | 5.91970 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 18-year continuously compounded instantaneous forward rate on Treasuries |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Interest rate |
| Data type | Instantaneous forward rate |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Interpolated level |
| Frequency | Daily |
| Unit | Percentage points |
| Source | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System |
| Source type | Central bank |
| Data licence | Licence to copy and distribute without permission |
| Other information | Yield curve fitted with Svensson method |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LD1 |
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