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Interest Rates · October 16, 2026 · 2 min read

Fed October 16 rates release puts October 15 ten-year Treasury yield at 5.10%

By Econ Data Tools Editorial Team

Published October 16, 2026 • Updated October 16, 2026

Reviewed by Editorial QC

The Federal Reserve's October 16 H.15 release reports a 5.10% nominal 10-year Treasury constant-maturity yield for October 15, compared with 5.19% for October 14. The release date and the observation date are different: the latest column in this published table is October 15, not an October 16 closing market quote.

The Federal Reserve's October 16 H.15 release reports a 5.10% nominal 10-year Treasury constant-maturity yield for October 15, compared with 5.19% for October 14. The release date and the observation date are different: the latest column in this published table is October 15, not an October 16 closing market quote. The same table lists the 2-year Treasury constant-maturity yield at 4.77% and the 30-year yield at 5.43% for October 15. Their October 14 observations were 4.82% and 5.52%, respectively. These are annualized yields in the Federal Reserve's selected-rates release, not promised returns for a particular investor's purchase. H.15 describes nominal Treasury constant-maturity figures as yields on actively traded non-inflation-indexed issues adjusted to constant maturities. Treasury is the source for that series. A constant-maturity yield should not be confused with a bond coupon, a specific security's transaction price or the rate offered on a savings account. For October 15, the release also lists a 3.88% effective federal funds rate, a 7.00% bank prime loan rate and a 4.00% discount-window primary-credit rate. These measures describe different markets or lending arrangements. The effective funds rate is an observed transaction measure, not itself a new Federal Open Market Committee policy decision. The prime-rate footnote describes a rate posted by a majority of the top 25 domestically chartered commercial banks, and notes that prime is one of several base rates used to price short-term business loans. That is not a consumer loan offer. The release does not establish a particular household's mortgage rate, credit-card APR or borrowing eligibility. The Federal Reserve says H.15 is normally posted on weekdays at 4:15 p.m., with holiday and closure exceptions. Readers comparing the release with a market headline should retain each instrument's date, definition and footnotes. The table alone does not establish that debt issuance, balance-sheet runoff or a particular investor group caused the observed yield changes.

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