Yahoo Finance’s Brian Cheung joins the Yahoo Finance Live panel for today’s Yahoo U: Fed dot plot.

But you probably haven't seen this chart, which actually is also part of the dot plot document. And the purple line is a historical account of the midpoint target range.

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 Fed dot plot is a quarterly chart with FOMC participants’ predictions about what the federal funds rate will be over the next two to three years and in the longer term. The dot plot provides ...

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 ...

Each member’s interest rate forecast is then plotted on a graph in the form of a dot plot. The policy rate in the US is currently in the 0-0.25 per cent range.

Dot Plot and Gold What is the link between the dot plot used by the Fed and gold? The dot plot – or, actually, the changes in the dot plot – show the shifts in the US central bank’s stance.

Red is the September Dot Plot and blue is December. If we're looking at the survey results as a whole, the Fed is essentially telling us that it's forecasting three rate hikes in 2017.

It Is probably the most closely scrutinised scatter chart in world financial markets. Every three months since January 2012, the Federal Reserve has sent analysts scurrying by updating its “dot plot”, ...

Each dot on the chart represents one Fed official. However, the dot plot is anonymous, so investors can’t tie individual projections to individual Fed officials.