A dot plot or dot chart consists of data points plotted on a graph. The Federal Reserve uses dot plots to show its predicted interest rate outlook.

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.

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

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 ...

It may look like an arcade game, but the “dot plot” and other charts released by the Federal Reserve hold clues to how much you’ll pay for a mortgage, and even how likely it is you’ll be ...

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.

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”, ...

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 ...

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.