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

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 March 2025 dot plot anticipated two 25-basis-point reductions this year, two more next year, and a last one in 2027, a rate that could reduce to the mid-3% zone by the end of 2026.

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 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 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, 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 dot plot is a graph showing where individual Fed policymakers expect official interest rates to be over time. The "median dot" is watched for a clue to the consensus outlook.

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 ...

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.

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.