The Fed’s dot plot is a chart updated quarterly that records each Fed official’s projection for the central bank’s key short-term interest rate, the federal funds rate.

It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months since January 2012, the Federal Reserve has sent analysts scurrying by updating its ...

Conditional questions are unanswerable. But in their indeterminacy, they highlight the fact that trying to time or game the market might not be the best idea.

Federal Reserve officials released new projections on the economy and the future path of interest rates Wednesday, the first time they've done so in 2025. Here's how the latest forecast compares ...

Wednesday’s dot plot is likely to imply fewer cuts next year. Futures were pricing in just a half percentage point of total easing in 2025, after a quarter-point cut at the December 2024 meeting.

The Problem With Wall Street’s Fixation on the Fed Dot Plot The rate projections give investors and analysts a false sense of precision. Some Fed officials are tired of them.

Conditional questions are unanswerable. But in their indeterminacy, they highlight the fact that trying to time or game the market might not be the best idea.

It was the Fed's dot plot, or a projection of where central bankers think interest rates will end up in the upcoming years, that provided the balm.

(Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday signaled potential changes for the Fed's closely watched "dot plot" interest-rate projections as part of a broad policy framework review ...

Conditional questions are unanswerable. But in their indeterminacy, they highlight the fact that trying to time or game the market might not be the best idea.