Yahoo Finance Live's Julie Hyman breaks down how to make sense of the Federal Reserve's 'Dot Plot' or Summary of Economic Projections.

The Federal Reserve’s dot plot predicts the federal funds rate for the next few years, helping officials understand the central bank’s potential decisions ...

Each dot represents the interest rate prediction of one Fed official. For example, each dot in the "2020" column on the dot plot (see below) indicates one official's prediction for where the benchmark ...

Since 2011, the Fed has published a chart known as the “dot plot,” which map out policymakers’ expectations for where interest rates could be headed in the future.

The dot plot was invented in late 2011, at a time when Fed officials were considering how to prepare markets for the shift they hoped to make away from the unprecedented array of monetary support ...

Since 2011, the Fed has published a chart known as the “dot plot,” which map out policymakers’ expectations for where interest rates could be headed in the future.

When the Fed’s so-called dot plot of the projected interest-rate path signaled two hikes for 2019, U.S. stocks plunged 3.5 percent in just over an hour. Have a confidential tip for our reporters?

A forecast of the future path of interest rates, or a dot plot, could create unnecessary expectations, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das said on July 22. Speaking at Bank of ...