The Fed announced it intends to raise the benchmark Fed funds rate to a range between 1.25% and 1.5%. The Federal Open Market Committee also released its quarterly "dot plot," showing where Fed ...

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. There ...

For the end of 2026, the median dot on Wednesday showed an unchanged target range of 3% to 3.25%. Officials’ median longer-run estimate of the fed-funds rate moved up by a quarter of a point for ...

The dot plot is a part of the economic projections released four times a year during every other FOMC meeting. The dots give an anonymous snapshot of where the 19 committee members project the fed ...

The March 2025 dot plot anticipated two 25-basis-point reductions this year, two more next year, and a last one in 2027, a rate that could reduce to the mid-3% zone by the end of 2026.