The dots are not a great forecaster of future rate moves,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has warned, but every quarter the financial universe ponders the FOMC’s dot plot as though it were a ...

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 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 ...

Bond Market at Risk of Third Annual Loss Needs a Dot-Plot Rescue. Fed policymakers set to unveil new forecasts for policy rate ‘Much maligned’ dot plot seen vital without forward-guidance ...

The dot plot, decoded. When the central bank releases its Summary of Economic Projections each quarter, Fed watchers focus obsessively on one part in particular: the so-called dot plot.