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What moves your card rate?

Prime is not a guess. The central bank sets a policy rate on a schedule, and prime moves with it within a day or two.

Prime today, the number your rate is written against

7.00%

The policy rate target is 3.88%. Prime is set relative to it, not to your card.

The working

Policy rate target
3.88%
The spread banks add
+ 3.12%
Prime
7.00%

Where these came from

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Sep 23
Source
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Series
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