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

While rates were left unchanged, as expected, the so-called dot-plot indicated that some Federal Reserve policy setters would like to raise overnight interest rates one more time this year from ...

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 dot plot is updated every three months and is meant to ...

Each dot on a matrix grid represents one official’s rate projection for the end of the year under appropriate interest-rate policy. Whether the median of those dots shows one cut or two might ...

The dot plot showed a projected midpoint in the federal funds rate of 4.6% for 2024, suggesting the potential for three rate cuts from the previous midpoint of 5.4% at the end of 2023.

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 will show Fed policymakers’ estimates for interest rates at the end of the next several years and over the longer run. The forecasts are represented by dots arranged along a ...

The dot plot, published every three months since 2012, is a graph depicting where each of the 19 U.S. central bankers expect the Fed's policy rate to be at the end of each of the next few years.

The last time the Fed released projections, following its December meeting, the median dot in its so-called dot plot put the midpoint of the central bank’s target range on overnight rates at ...