The Federal Reserve enacted its fourth straight pause of 2025 while signaling possible interest rate cuts around the corner.

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 ...

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 Predicament: False Precision in Uncertain Times. Investors treat the Fed’s rate projections as a promise from central bankers. They’re not. By . Nick Timiraos.

The Fed releases a dot plot at every other meeting. Each dot on a matrix grid represents one official's rate projection for the end of the year under appropriate interest-rate policy.

The amount of attention on the Fed’s “dot plot” partly reflects the lack of suspense for a meeting at which interest rates are widely expected to be left alone.

The Federal Reserve's latest "dot plot" outlining future interest rate moves suggests the central bank will still cut rates twice this year, unchanged from its March outlook, though June's ...

The median dot now sees just one cut in 2026, down from two cuts in the March SEP, and one more cut in 2027, ultimately taking the Fed funds rate down to 3.375%. The median longer-run dot was ...

From bankrate.com. After the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate decision, you may be tempted to try and start connecting some dots. That’s because U.S. central bankers updated their closely ...

That’s because U.S. central bankers updated their closely scrutinized “Summary of Economic Projections” (SEP) at their June meeting, which includes a chart that many Fed watchers obsess over: the “dot ...