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?

The dot plot, decoded When the central bank releases its Summary of Economic Projections each quarter, Fed watchers focus obsessively on one part in particular: the so-called dot plot.

Supporters of the dot plot say it can make monetary policy more effective, noting that in the wake of the global financial crisis the Fed's dot plot underscored U.S. central bankers' expectation ...

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 ...

“The dots are not a great forecaster of future rate moves,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has warned, but every quarter the financial universe ponders the FOMC’s dot plot as though ...