Interest rates were super low two years ago, which proved to be a mixed bag for individuals. On the plus side, debt was cheap – a 30-year mortgage was about 3% – but on the downside, savers earned a ...

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 Jerome ...

The Federal Reserve introduced a visual tool called the "dot plot" in 2012 to communicate where officials think interest rates should be in the coming years. The dot plot is eagerly dissected by Fed ...

The Federal Reserve's Summary of Economic Projections, aka the "dot plot," will be the focus for investors when policymakers update their policy outlook Wednesday afternoon. The dot plot is a graph ...

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 ...

The data may be dense, but don't dismiss the Federal Reserve's dot plot. The key stat, released by the Fed, is showing a reading investors haven't seen in three years and it should ease any near-term ...

The Fed is expected to keep unchanged rates at its March meeting. Market attention is focused on the dot plot. If the Fed suggests fewer cuts than expected, it could trigger a bearish market response ...

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Powell says that a soft landing is the primary objective of the Fed. However, when Powell was prompted to say that a soft landing was a baseline expectation, Powell specifically said that a soft ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve concluded its meeting exactly as market watchers had expected: by keeping interest rates steady. While a cut might have been a pleasant surprise to some — as lower interest ...

One of Wall Street's top inflation forecasters says investors should not be smitten with the Federal Reserve's so-called dot plot in trying to figure out how many interest-rate cuts are coming. "In ...