Fixed Income and Money Markets
Fixed Income and Money Markets
Overview
This page documents the Fixed Income and Money Markets data product as a whole. The product comprises five datasets — Money Markets: Commercial Paper Rates, Money Markets: Effective Federal Funds Rate, Money Markets: SOFR Rates, Money Markets: Historical USD LIBOR Rates, and US Financial Markets Holidays and Early Closes — which share a common delivery pipeline and are documented together here rather than page-by-page.
Together the datasets provide daily benchmark rate series for the U.S. money markets: the effective federal funds rate from July 1954, 30-day commercial paper rates from January 1997, SOFR from its April 2018 inception, and USD LIBOR from May 2019 through the benchmark's discontinuation in March 2025, together with a U.S. financial-markets holiday and early-close calendar covering FINRA and SIFMA observances.
7 Chord, founded in 2017, develops fixed-income market data and analytics used by traders, investors, and researchers. BondDroid, the company's market data aggregation engine, anonymizes and distills market observations into composite bond prices, issuer credit curves, benchmark rates, and reference datasets spanning fixed-income markets. Through its partnership with Dewey, 7 Chord makes these datasets available to the academic research community.
Data Description
Each rates dataset carries one row per business day (the federal funds series also covers weekends and holidays), keyed by report_date. The holiday calendar carries one row per holiday or observance per year.
Money Markets: Commercial Paper Rates
Daily 30-day U.S. commercial paper rate, January 2, 1997 to present. The current delivery carries a single series; additional maturities and credit segments (e.g., AA financial, AA nonfinancial, asset-backed, A2/P2) are described by the provider but are not present in the delivered files to date.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| report_date | The business date the rate applies to (the observation date of the underlying series). |
| 30d | 30-day U.S. commercial paper rate, percent per annum. |
| bd_processing_datetime | Timestamp at which BondDroid processed and published this observation. |
Money Markets: Effective Federal Funds Rate
Daily effective federal funds rate, July 1, 1954 to present, published seven days per week.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| report_date | The business date the rate applies to (the observation date of the underlying series). |
| overnight | Effective federal funds rate (overnight), percent per annum. |
| bd_processing_datetime | Timestamp at which BondDroid processed and published this observation. |
Money Markets: SOFR Rates
Secured Overnight Financing Rate from its April 3, 2018 inception to present. Term columns (1M, 3M, 6M) are present in the schema but not populated in the delivery to date.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| report_date | The business date the rate applies to (the observation date of the underlying series). |
| overnight | Secured Overnight Financing Rate (overnight), percent per annum. |
| 1m | 1-month SOFR rate, percent per annum. |
| 3m | 3-month SOFR rate, percent per annum. |
| 6m | 6-month SOFR rate, percent per annum. |
| bd_processing_datetime | Timestamp at which BondDroid processed and published this observation. |
Money Markets: Historical USD LIBOR Rates
USD LIBOR panel fixings across seven tenors, May 7, 2019 through March 28, 2025 — the final publication date before the benchmark's discontinuation. This dataset is a static historical archive and no longer updates.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| report_date | Publication (fixing) date of the USD LIBOR panel. |
| effective_date | Value date the fixing applies to (typically the following business day). |
| currency | Currency of the LIBOR panel (USD in this delivery). |
| overnight | Overnight USD LIBOR, percent per annum. |
| 1w | 1-week USD LIBOR, percent per annum. |
| 1m | 1-month USD LIBOR, percent per annum. |
| 2m | 2-month USD LIBOR, percent per annum. |
| 3m | 3-month USD LIBOR, percent per annum. |
| 6m | 6-month USD LIBOR, percent per annum. |
| 1y | 1-year USD LIBOR, percent per annum. |
US Financial Markets Holidays and Early Closes
U.S. financial-market holidays and early closes, 2012 through 2026 (2015 is absent from the source archive), with FINRA and SIFMA designations carried separately.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| year | Calendar year the holiday entry belongs to. |
| region | Market region of the calendar (USA in this delivery). |
| holiday | Name of the market holiday or observance. |
| date | Calendar date of the holiday or observance. |
| is_finra_holiday | TRUE when FINRA designates the date a market holiday. |
| is_sifma_holiday | TRUE when SIFMA recommends a full market close for the date. |
| sifma_early_close | Early-close time recommended by SIFMA for the date, when applicable. |
| sifma_recommendation | SIFMA's recommendation for the date (e.g., early-close guidance), when applicable. |
Coverage
| Dataset | Span | Cadence |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial Paper Rates | 1997-01-02 to present | Business daily, T+1 |
| Effective Federal Funds Rate | 1954-07-01 to present | Daily (7 days/week), T+1 |
| SOFR Rates | 2018-04-03 to present | Business daily, T+1 |
| USD LIBOR Rates | 2019-05-07 to 2025-03-28 | Static (benchmark discontinued) |
| Holidays and Early Closes | 2012 to 2026, 2015 absent | Annual and ad-hoc re-issues |
All datasets refresh weekly on Dewey; the underlying series are produced daily by the provider on a next-business-day (T+1) schedule.
Methodology
Each series is collected from its administrator or primary source — commercial paper rates are derived from Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) settlement transaction data, the effective federal funds rate and SOFR from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's published fixings, and USD LIBOR from ICE Benchmark Administration panel fixings — then normalized and redistributed by BondDroid on a next-business-day (T+1) schedule. Holiday and early-close designations follow FINRA and SIFMA publications.
Additional Notes
This documentation is maintained at the data product level: the five member datasets are versioned and refreshed together, and schema or coverage changes to any of them are recorded against this page. Rate values are expressed in percent per annum. The companion Bond Prices and Credit Curves product from the same provider carries instrument-level composite pricing and issuer curves suitable for joining against these benchmark series.
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