Every three months, the central bank updates a scatter chart showing where top officials believe rates are headed. Not everyone is a fan of the anonymous projections.

The Federal Reserve’s dot plot is a graph that contains the Federal Open Market Committee participants’ forecasts of where they think the federal funds rate will head over the next several years.

Investors closely track the dot plot as it offers clues on the Fed’s policy stance and can move asset prices across the board.

Fed dot plot shows divergent views on future rate cuts in 2025. But for now most see two more rate cuts, although the they ...

Federal Reserve policymakers projected inflation will rise to 3% in 2025 while unemployment will reach 4.5% as the central ...

The Federal Reserve introduced a visual tool called the "dot plot" in 2012 to communicate where officials think interest rates should be in the coming years. The dot plot is eagerly dissected by Fed ...

The Fed's dot-plot shows a split over whether to the central bank should cut rates three times this year. According to the ...

The Anonymized 'Dot Plot' Could Be Leading Market Watchers Astray Terry has 25 years experience in journalism and communications, reporting on a range of topics that include personal finance, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's rate path "dot plot" has become increasingly detached from financial markets' interest-rate projections and risks sending an overly hawkish message that ...

The Federal Reserve marked down their 2025 and 2026 interest rate outlook, with a softening labor market outweighing concerns ...