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 ...

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.

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The rate projections give investors and analysts a false sense of precision. Some Fed officials are tired of them.

March Dot Plot to Highlight Fed Officials’ Outlook. In December, the plot made a case for two rate cuts. The forecast now must contend with tariffs, and more. By . Matt Grossman. Share.

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 ...

The Federal Reserve's new interest-rate expectations, known as the 'dot plot' forecasts, due at next week's meeting are unlikely to keep pace with current heightened rate-cut expectations, Elmar ...

Dot Plot in Focus With Fed's "No Cut" Announcement Bonds lost some ground after this morning's economic data, arguably in response to the Retail Sales control group beating its forecast.&amp ...

(Read our explainer on how the dot plot works here.) In March, the median forecast pointed to two cuts in 2025, implying a reduction in the federal funds rate target range to 3.75%-4.00% by year end.