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

The Fed’s dot plot is a chart updated quarterly that records each Fed official’s projection for the central bank’s key short-term interest rate, the federal funds rate.

The June 2025 gathering puts the Federal Reserve in a quandary. The target federal funds rate is still in the 4.25% to 4.50% range, a rate that has been maintained since late 2024.

With today's Federal Reserve rate decision seen as a foregone conclusion, many investors will look to the central bank's economic and interest-rate projections for a sense of how eager Chair ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s June meeting showed officials split on whether rate cuts could be needed as soon as this month, or not until next year. The result for the market is little change in ...

The recent stock market rally hit a pause last week, as an Israeli airstrike on Iran sent oil prices higher and equities lower to end the first full trading week of June.. For the week, the S&P ...