For example, this week’s dot plot showed that 9 of the 17 thought the appropriate Fed funds range by the end of 2016 would be the range between 0.75% and 1.0%. They called that the median.

What is a Federal Reserve dot plot? Four times a year (March, June, September, and December), the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) publishes a Summary of Economic Projections (SEP).

The Fed releases a dot plot at every other meeting. Each dot on a matrix grid represents one official's rate projection for the end of the year under appropriate interest-rate policy.

The Federal Reserve's rate path "dot plot" has become increasingly detached from financial markets' interest-rate projections and risks sending an overly hawkish message that may undermine the ...

The amount of attention on the Fed’s “dot plot” partly reflects the lack of suspense for a meeting at which interest rates are widely expected to be left alone.

If the Federal Reserve’s “dot plot” reveals anything, it’s that the stewards of the American economy are even more pessimistic now than they were just a few months ago about how fast the U ...

The Problem With Wall Street’s Fixation on the Fed Dot Plot Rate projections give investors and analysts a false sense of precision. Some Fed officials are tired of them.

The Federal Reserve’s dot plot showed that officials still see two more rate cuts coming in 2025 despite a more pessimistic outlook for the economy.

These predictions are commonly displayed via a dot plot where each dot represents a FOMC participant's prediction of the Fed Funds Rate at the end of each calendar year.

Since 2011, the Fed has published a chart known as the “dot plot,” which map out policymakers’ expectations for where interest rates could be headed in the future.