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The Federal Reserve’s dot plot is a graph that contains the Federal Open Market Committee participants’ forecasts of where they think the federal funds rate will head over the next several years.

It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months since January 2012, the Federal Reserve has sent analysts scurrying by updating its “dot plot, ...

The Federal Reserve introduced a visual tool called the "dot plot" in 2012 to communicate where officials think interest rates should be in the coming years. The dot plot is eagerly dissected by Fed ...

The Federal Reserve's Summary of Economic Projections, aka the "dot plot," will be the focus for investors when policymakers update their policy outlook Wednesday afternoon. The dot plot is a graph ...

On the eve of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision, traders, economists and central-bank watchers across Wall Street are fixated on a single, perplexing question: Will the median of 19 policymakers ...

Powell says that a soft landing is the primary objective of the Fed. However, when Powell was prompted to say that a soft landing was a baseline expectation, Powell specifically said that a soft ...

The Summary of Economic Projections offers important insights into the views of Federal Open Market Committee participants. The summary’s “dot plot” charts each participant’s assessment of the ...

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The Federal Reserve introduced a visual tool called the "dot plot" in 2012 to communicate where officials think interest rates should be in the... Has the Fed lost the dot plot? The Federal Reserve ...