It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months since January 2012, the Federal Reserve has sent analysts scurrying by updating its “dot plot, ...

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 ...

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How do you talk about your best guess for where the economy is headed while also highlighting your worst fears? That question is proving a major challenge for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell ...

(Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday signaled potential changes for the Fed's closely watched "dot plot" interest-rate projections as part of a broad policy framework review ...

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 ...

On the eve of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision, traders, economists and central-bank watchers across Wall Street are fixated on a single, perplexing question: Will the median of 19 policymakers ...

Tech rises then falls based on the FOMC meeting … evaluating the odds of a rate hike … tools you can use to help plan your market approach On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) ...

After each Federal Reserve meeting, market analysts, desperate to divine future monetary policy, scrutinize every aspect of the central bank’s public statements—including its “dot plot,” released four ...

Wall Street is stuck on the dot plot again, and it’s turning into a joke. Ahead of the Federal Reserve’s meeting this Wednesday, traders, economists, and anyone who watches the Fed for a living are ...