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 ...

So, the median projection for 2019 as of the March dot plot calls for a target federal funds rate in the 2.25% to 2.50% range, which is exactly where the federal funds rate was at the time the dot ...

The Anonymized 'Dot Plot' Could Be Leading Market Watchers Astray Terry has 25 years experience in journalism and communications, reporting on a range of topics that include personal finance ...

But you probably haven't seen this chart, which actually is also part of the dot plot document. And the purple line is a historical account of the midpoint target range.

The Federal Reserve made no change in the target range for its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday but suggested changes are coming later this year. The fed funds rate was kept unchanged in a ...

For all but six weeks of the entire year to date, the so-called 'median dot' - taken from the range of Fed policymakers yearend rate projections each quarter - has indicated an end-2023 rate in ...

The Fed dot plot is a quarterly chart with FOMC participants’ predictions about what the federal funds rate will be over the next two to three years and in the longer term. The dot plot provides ...

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 ...

Red is the September Dot Plot and blue is December. If we're looking at the survey results as a whole, the Fed is essentially telling us that it's forecasting three rate hikes in 2017.

Allison Schrager deserves credit for saying the Fed does not have a better crystal ball than anyone else. But this is true even if the Fed doesn't release the dot plot.