The dot plot first appeared in 2012. Fed voting members are asked what they think will be the appropriate interest rate target at the end of each of the next few years, and their answers are compiled ...

Key benefits of reading the Fed’s dot plot The Fed’s dot plot can help clue Fed watchers into how the committee is reacting to the latest economic data.

The Fed’s “dot plot” showed that the median forecast for rate cuts in 2025 was now a half-percentage point, lower than their September projections.

“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 ...

All this comes despite more encouraging data on producer prices and initial jobless claims—at least for those hoping for rate cuts. The focus on the Dot Plot may prove shortsighted.