The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday it would lower interest rates two more times this year after it slashed its benchmark federal funds rate by 50 basis points to a range of 4.75%-5.0% at the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Allison Schrager deserves credit for saying the Fed does not have a better crystal ball than anyone else. But this is true even if the Fed doesn't release the dot plot.

Red is the September Dot Plot and blue is December. If we're looking at the survey results as a whole, the Fed is essentially telling us that it's forecasting three rate hikes in 2017.

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 ...

The dot plot shows the highest projection for 2025 of 5.625% and the lowest projection of 2.625%. The message from the dot plot is that interest rates are going to stay higher for longer.

The Fed should stop publishing its projections of future interest rates, which prove only that the economy is unpredictable—and undermine the central bank’s credibility.

Besides the Fed's rate decision for December (half-point hike almost certainly), investors will be keeping a close eye on the dot plot of interest-rate projections, which also will be released at ...

Bank stocks could be in for another great year if the Federal Reserve's latest dot plot turns out to be accurate.

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.