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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.

(Bloomberg) -- It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months ...

Former Fed chief Bernanke will participate in a discussion tomorrow about the Fed's communication. Ahead of it, he has sketched out his views on his Brookings Institution blog here. Most of the ...

As investors, wouldn't it be nice if we had a crystal ball that could tell us the future direction of interest rates? Well, we do...sort of. At the conclusion of its four meetings each year that ...

The Federal Reserve is expected to leave rates unchanged on Wednesday. But Wall Street is focused on what comes in 2024 — and beyond. By Jeanna Smialek Federal Reserve officials are scheduled to ...

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 provide ...

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 Wall Street Journal reports today that Fed officials are increasingly nervous about the “dot plot” they release periodically. The dot plot shows how each member of the FOMC projects interest rates ...

As Federal Reserve officials gather for their March meeting, the focus isn’t on Wednesday afternoon’s decision for interest rates, but on what may happen months from now. The central bank is widely ...