historic interest rates

hi there,

I am working on a strategy and trying to find the historic base rates for all the major currencies going back as far as possible, but have only been able to find what I need for the british pound. Does anyone know where I could find the data for the other currencies?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Australia?

New Zealand

Canada only to 2002 I see , 60 months
If that doesn't work goto http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/interest-look.html and hit " Bank rate" check monthly and get rates....I think

Eurozone is new, so I don't know what you'd use there.
Japan was obviously 0% since 2000.

Look around in www.economagic.com
I think several country-rates are mentioned, like USA, Japan, Europe and others.

thats great, just what I was looking for. Thanks guys.

Here is the UK past rates if anybody wants them:

http://www.moneyworld-ifa.co.uk/bank-base-rates.htm

http://www.federalreserve.gov

has various data types.

I found the US rates

http://www.federalreserve.gov/fomc/fundsrate.htm

anyone know of the Swiss Franc historic rates?

So far I'm not having as easy of a time finding rates for the Swiss, but I get the feeling they've always been low.

You know what would be a great case study? Look for past surprise interest rate changes, and then research the sentiment of other economies and how the price reacted. Like how the Bank of England surprise hiked two times, and GBP/JPY FLEW. And those types of relationships. And then check expected rate changes.
Maybe you're already doing that...but I bet it would be a goldmine and yet it doesn't take many trades.

Yes, I am having trouble too, they rely a lot on imports so a weak currency could be good for them.
yep, that could an interesting study. From what I have seen though, there are not many suprise rate hikes. Often they seem to get priced in before the event.

found ECB rates if anyone is interested:

http://www.ecb.int/stats/monetary/ra.../index.en.html