The Dot Plot, Explained: Understanding How the Fed Forecasts

(Bloomberg) -- It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months ...
MarketWatch

All eyes on 'dot plot': Markets may sink if Fed forecasts no rate cuts in 2024

The Federal Reserve's Summary of Economic Projections, aka the "dot plot," will be the focus for investors when policymakers update their policy outlook Wednesday afternoon. The dot plot is a graph ...
MarketWatch

‘Dot plot’ points to big divide in Fed on how fast to raise rates

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)—Most Federal Reserve honchos expect the bank to start raising a key short-term interest rate later this year, but they are sharply split on how long it will take to reach ...
Investopedia

Diving into the Dots: What the Fed’s Interest Rate Projections Mean

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Yahoo Finance

Dot plot: The Fed's key chart explained (for beginners)

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 ...
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How the Fed’s Dot Plot, Political Pressures, and Tariffs Shape Rate-Cut Expectations and Market Reactions

“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 it were a ...
U.S. News & World Report

Fed Chair Powell Signals Possible Tweaks to 'Dot Plot' Rate-Path Forecasts

(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 ...
The New York Times

How to Read the Fed’s Projections Like a Pro

The Federal Reserve is expected to cut rates on Wednesday. Wall Street is focused on how much, and on what comes next. By Jeanna Smialek Jeanna Smialek covers economics and reported this story from ...
Wall Street Journal

Derby’s Take: With No Rate Move Seen This Week, Focus Shifts to Dot Plot

With Federal Reserve officials satisfied with the level of short-term rates right now, their dot plot of rate projections due at their policy meeting this week takes on added importance. The dot plot ...

Don't Expect an Interest-Rate Cut. Focus on the 'Dot Plot' Instead.

The Federal Reserve is all but certain to announce no change in interest rates after its two-day policy meeting ends today. What matters more is how many cuts policymakers indicate they expect to make ...
Seeking Alpha

Fed sees two more 25-bp cuts this year, up from one in June SEP: dot plot

The Federal Reserve marked down its 2025 interest rate outlook while keeping the following year's projection steady, with a softening labor market outweighing concerns about inflation re-accelerating, ...