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 is useful because it can convey the shifting consensus of the committee. For example, the March 2025 revision depicted the majority of policymakers supporting two reductions in 2025 ...

Investors focus on the median dot. As many as 19 monetary policymakers — the seven governors on the Fed Board in Washington and the presidents of the 12 regional banks — can contribute a dot.

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 ...

Wednesday’s dot plot is likely to imply fewer cuts next year. Futures were pricing in just a half percentage point of total easing in 2025, after a quarter-point cut at the December 2024 meeting.

One of Wall Street's top inflation forecasters says investors should not be smitten with the Federal Reserve's so-called dot plot in trying to figure out how many interest-rate cuts are coming ...

(Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday signaled potential changes for the Fed's closely watched "dot plot" interest-rate projections as part of a broad policy framework review ...

With the Federal Reserve expected to hold interest rates steady this week, the forward-looking dot plot will be in the limelight when the central bank’s two-day policy meeting concludes ...

Once the Fed's vaunted "dot plot" forecasted a fewer-than-expected two rate cuts for 2025, all three major indexes pivoted sharply lower, while the 10-year Treasury yield spiked to 4.47%.