The Fed’s dot plot is a chart updated quarterly that records each Fed official’s projection for the central bank’s key short-term interest rate, the federal funds rate.

The dot plot is useful because it can convey the shifting consensus of the committee. For example, the March 2025 revision depicted the majority of policymakers supporting two reductions in 2025 ...

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

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.

(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 ...

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 ...

The latest dot plot seemed to signal that Fed officials’ internal consensus on rate cuts is weakening. The range of forecasts for where the bank’s target for the federal-finds rate is going appeared ...

Markets know the Fed will cut and that the dot plot (aka rate outlook survey that's updated 4 times per year and closely watched by bonds) will show a higher rate trajectory than September.

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 ...

Whatever happens at September's Federal Reserve meeting will pale in comparison to a wholesale rethinking of the U.S. central ...

The amount of attention on the Fed’s “dot plot” partly reflects the lack of suspense for a meeting at which interest rates are widely expected to be left alone.