As 2024 illustrated, zealous attention placed on small shifts in the median rate projection isn’t always a useful guide to ...

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 ...

The Federal Reserve is all but certain to announce no change in interest rates after its two-day policy meeting ends today.

The Federal Reserve maintained its previously expected pace of rate cuts but signaled higher inflation and a slowdown in ...

Coming out of the March FOMC meeting, US Federal Reserve officials have opted to hold interest rates at their current levels, maintaining hope for three rate cuts in 2024. While finding the Fed's ...

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 dot plot tells the public what the Fed anticipates doing with the fed funds rate in the years to come. Four times a year, the 19 members of the Federal Open Market Committee predict what they ...

The dot plot shows how each member of the FOMC projects interest rates over the next few years, with one dot for each member. Here’s a Bloomberg version of the dot plot: Back in 2014, as […] ...

Federal Reserve policymakers have maintained a steady approach to interest rates over the last year, keeping the target range ...

The dot plot increases transparency over Fed operations, according to Julia Coronado, president and founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives, who used to work for the Fed’s board of governors.