The dot plot is updated every three months and is meant to provide insight into the Fed’s future rate decisions, with the caveat that Fed officials can’t always predict the future.

For example, this week’s dot plot showed that 9 of the 17 thought the appropriate Fed funds range by the end of 2016 would be the range between 0.75% and 1.0%. They called that the median. There ...

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.

The Federal Reserve just announced, as expected, that it intends to raise its target for its baseline interest rate to 0.75% to 1%, up from the 0.5% to 0.75% range set in December 2016. The ...

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The dot plot shows the highest projection for 2025 of 5.625% and the lowest projection of 2.625%. The message from the dot plot is that interest rates are going to stay higher for longer.

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The last few years have undermined both premises. All the dot plot really does is make plain that many economic variables are entirely unpredictable and that the Fed does not have a better crystal ...

This quarter's Dot Plot seems more in line with consensus expectations. The market is as well positioned as it has been in years to handle higher rates and I expect we'll see multiple hikes in 2017.

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 ...