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The Federal Reserve maintained its previously expected pace of rate cuts but signaled higher inflation and a slowdown in ...
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 will show Fed policymakers’ estimates for interest rates at the end of the next several years and over the longer run. The forecasts are represented by dots arranged along a ...
Federal Reserve officials publish their forecasts for the central bank’s key interest rate on a chart known as the 'dot plot.' Below, we've highlighted the median forecast in orange. The ...
Key Takeaways The Federal Reserve’s dot plot showed that officials still see two more rate cuts coming in 2025 and another two in 2026, though expectations varied among members.The projections ...
The dot plot increases transparency over Fed operations, according to Julia Coronado, president and founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives, who used to work for the Fed’s board of governors.
The dot plot was invented in late 2011, at a time when Fed officials were considering how to prepare markets for the shift they hoped to make away from the unprecedented array of monetary support ...
The Federal Reserve’s “dot plot” showed that officials project another half-percentage point of rate cuts in 2024 after today's 50 basis point cut.
The dot plot is a graph showing where individual Fed policymakers expect official interest rates to be over time. The "median dot" is watched for a clue to the consensus outlook.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell himself stressed several times that the dot plot should not be viewed as a plan and could shift as data evolves. He also admitted to a “slight element of conservatism” in the ...
The dot plot, decoded. When the central bank releases its Summary of Economic Projections each quarter, Fed watchers focus obsessively on one part in particular: the so-called dot plot.
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.