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 ...

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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 01: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell arrives to testify during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, on March 1, 2018 in ...

Wall Street closely watches Federal Reserve meetings, but it's not just the decision on interest rates that makes headlines. The central bank's dot plot is a key quarterly forecast for both investors ...

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Bloomberg's Cameron Crise discusses the Fed projections implied by market pricing and economist dot-plot forecasts, based on the FOMC reaction function.

A Federal Reserve report in the coming week will show that central bank officials expect fewer cuts to interest rates in the coming year, according to economists at financial-services firm J.P. Morgan ...

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 ...

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Almost nobody expects the Federal Open Market Committee to cut interest rates on Wednesday. That puts investor attention squarely on the policymakers' Summary of Economic Projections, especially the ...