MarketWatch

Understanding the Fed Dot Plot: A Comprehensive Guide

The Federal Reserve’s dot plot is a graph that contains the Federal Open Market Committee participants’ forecasts of where they think the federal funds rate will head over the next several years.

The Dot Plot, Explained: Understanding How the Fed Forecasts

(Bloomberg) -- It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months ...
NPR

Has the Fed lost the dot plot?

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 ...
AOL

The Federal Reserve’s latest dot plot, explained — and what it says about interest rates

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 ...
Reuters

Fed's Goolsbee: US rate-path 'dot plot' needs more context

PALO ALTO, California, May 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve should beef up its quarterly "dot plot" of policymakers' interest-rate-path views by including the individual economic expectations ...
The New York Times

How to Read the Fed’s Projections Like a Pro

The Federal Reserve is expected to leave rates unchanged on Wednesday. But Wall Street is focused on what comes in 2024 — and beyond. By Jeanna Smialek Federal Reserve officials are scheduled to ...
MarketWatch

Don't take unstable Fed ‘dot plot’ too seriously, top economist advises

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 ...
Reuters

Fed Chair Powell signals possible tweaks to 'dot plot' rate-path forecasts

March 7 (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 ...

Fed’s dot plot, QT commentary hold key to market direction: Arvind Sanger

Markets anticipate a 25 basis point rate cut from the Federal Reserve. Investors will closely watch the Fed's commentary and ...
Wall Street Journal

Fed's Dot Plot Shows Officials Warming to Higher Long Run Rates

Turns out that the Federal Reserve’s dot plot carried a nuanced message for investors. Sure, the most closely watched number didn’t change. Officials’ median forecast showed a 2024 year-end rate of ...
Fox Business

What is the Fed's outlook for interest rate cuts, inflation and jobs for the remainder of the year?

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut interest rates for the first time in 2025 and released policymakers' quarterly forecast of economic conditions that shows the potential outlook for further rate ...
Seeking Alpha

Fed sees two more 25-bp cuts this year, up from one in June SEP: dot plot

The Federal Reserve marked down its 2025 interest rate outlook while keeping the following year's projection steady, with a softening labor market outweighing concerns about inflation re-accelerating, ...