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 median dot in its so-called dot plot put the midpoint of the central bank’s target range on overnight rates at about 5.25% by the end of this year—higher than the current midpoint of 4.625%.

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 ...

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 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 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.

Stanley pointed out that in June, the the median dot called for a single quarter-point rate cut by the end of 2024, with four top Fed officials predicting zero rate cuts this year. Back To Top ...