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 ...

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 ...

After each Federal Reserve meeting, market analysts, desperate to divine future monetary policy, scrutinize every aspect of the central bank’s public statements—including its “dot plot,” released four ...

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 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 forecast ...

Right now, there's a gap between what Fed policymakers are projecting on interest rates and what the market is saying. That's best viewed through this chart, from the CME's handy Fed watch tool, on ...

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 Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting is the pivotal event for the markets this week, possibly even the most crucial one of the entire first quarter of 2024. While the customary ...

As Federal Reserve officials gather for their March meeting, the focus isn’t on Wednesday afternoon’s decision for interest rates, but on what may happen months from now. The central bank is widely ...

The Federal Reserve maintained its projection to carry out three interest-rate cuts by the end of 2024, according to the U.S. central bank’s Summary of Economic Projections released this Wednesday.

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