The dot plot is a graph showing where individual Fed policymakers expect official interest rates to be over time. The "median dot" is watched for a clue to the consensus outlook. In March, when ...

With today's Federal Reserve rate decision seen as a foregone conclusion, many investors will look to the central bank's economic and interest-rate projections for a sense of how eager Chair ...

Chicago Fed President Charles Evans on Tuesday gave a spirited defense of the dot plot as he said rates may need to plateau next year.

The Federal Reserve maintained its previously expected pace of rate cuts but signaled higher inflation and a slowdown in economic growth for 2025.

“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 ...

The Fed’s Revelation Today Could Make or Break Markets Economists don’t expect a change to interest rates, so all eyes will be on the dot plot–the Fed’s outlook for the rest of the year.

In terms of the dot plot, the median projection for 2023 remained consistent with June’s figures at 5.6%, indicating a preference for one more rate increase, potentially occurring in either the ...

Federal Reserve officials still see one more interest-rate hike before the end of this year, median forecasts released on Wednesday show. The central bank’s latest Summary of Economic ...

The dot plot is a graphical representation of where every member of the FOMC, both voting and non-voting, believes the fed funds rate will be at the end of each of the next three or four years in ...