The Fed’s dot plot is a chart that records each Fed official’s projection for the central bank’s key short-term interest rate. The dot plot is updated every three months and is meant to ...

The new dot plot falls in a similar range. The median member still sees the funds rate between 1.25 and 1.5% at the end of this year, suggesting two further hikes in 2017, with a gradual path up ...

The Fed announced it intends to raise the benchmark Fed funds rate to a range between 1.25% and 1.5%. The Federal Open Market Committee also released its quarterly "dot plot," showing where Fed ...

The "dot plot," part of the FOMC's Summary of Economic Projections released along with the policy decision statement, shows where each participant in the meeting thinks the fed funds rate should be at ...

For example, this week’s dot plot showed that 9 of the 17 thought the appropriate Fed funds range by the end of 2016 would be the range between 0.75% and 1.0%. They called that the median.

The Fed just announced that they intend to keep the target fed funds rate in the same 0.25-0.5% range they have been targeting since December 2015. They also gave us some idea about what they think is ...

In Wednesday’s dot plot, eight officials penciled in two cuts, seven had one cut, and four predicted no change in the fed-funds rate this year.

Over the years, Fed policymakers and economists have made a range of suggestions about how to improve the dot plot, which has been published in its current form since well before Powell became ...