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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 ...
Since 2011, the Fed has published a chart known as the “dot plot,” which map out policymakers’ expectations for where interest rates could be headed in the future.
Figure 1 uses a dot plot to show the revenues of the top 60 companies on the 2011 Fortune 500 list which provides revenues for 2010. One reason for choosing a dot plot rather than a bar chart is ...
This post recommends using Trellis plots instead of 3D bar charts for three-dimensional (three variable) data. In Winner of the Bad Graph Contest Announced, I promised to present alternatives to ...
The Fed's dot plot is auspicious for bank stocks given that banks make more money when rates are high relative to when they're low. Since the financial crisis , rates have hovered near historic lows.
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 ...
The Federal Reserve’s latest dot plot of interest rate projections signalled a total of four interest rates rises this year and put the median view of the federal funds rate at 2.4 per cent at ...
The so-called dot plot of interest rate projections released on Wednesday implies interest rates will be left unchanged next year. Median forecasts indicate one rate rise in 2021 and 2022.