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 provide ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: Jerome Powell, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman, speaks at a press conference after a Federal Open Market Committee meeting at the Federal Reserve on January 29, 2025 in ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ...

On the eve of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision, traders, economists and central-bank watchers across Wall Street are fixated on a single, perplexing question: Will the median of 19 policymakers ...

Wall Street closely watches Federal Reserve meetings, but it's not just the decision on interest rates that makes headlines. The central bank's dot plot is a key quarterly forecast for both investors ...

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 Jerome ...

Interest rates were super low two years ago, which proved to be a mixed bag for individuals. On the plus side, debt was cheap – a 30-year mortgage was about 3% – but on the downside, savers earned a ...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut interest rates for the first time in 2025 and released policymakers' quarterly forecast of economic conditions that shows the potential outlook for further rate ...

The Federal Reserve “dot plot” showed a wide dispersion in expectations for the path of interest rates after the central bank’s rate cut on Wednesday. An unusual combination of sticky inflation and a ...