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 Fed’s December dot plot, which illustrates each policymaker’s projected path for interest rates, indicates a median expectation for the federal funds rate to decrease to a midpoint of 3.9% ...

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.

Wednesday’s dot plot is likely to imply fewer cuts next year. Futures were pricing in just a half percentage point of total easing in 2025, after a quarter-point cut at the December 2024 meeting.

Over the years, Fed policymakers and economists have made a range of suggestions about how to improve the dot plot, which has been published in its current form since well before Powell became ...

The Federal Reserve's latest "dot plot" outlining future interest rate moves suggests the central bank will still cut rates twice this year, unchanged from its March outlook, though June's ...

The Federal Reserve is all but certain to announce no change in interest rates after its two-day policy meeting ends today. What matters more is how many cuts policymakers indicate they expect to ...

The Federal Reserve will take a more cautious approach to its easing cycle, according to the latest dot plot projections.

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 ...

CNBC Daily Open: Fed's dot plot calms some market jitters By Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC • Published March 20, 2025 • Updated on March 20, 2025 at 3:39 am Log in or create a free profile to save articles ...

It was the Fed's dot plot, or a projection of where central bankers think interest rates will end up in the upcoming years, that provided the balm.