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.

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The Federal Reserve has left its key interest rate unchanged as inflation cools. However, the central bank did change its projection of future rates, pricing in only one cut this year. Yahoo Finance's ...

(Bloomberg) -- It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months since January 2012, the Federal Reserve has sent analysts scurrying by updating ...

As part of its September interest rate decision, the Federal Reserve released its latest Summary of Economic Projections. Madison Mills joins Seana Smith to discuss the Fed’s new dot plot and what it ...

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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 ...

Bank stocks could be in for another great year if the Federal Reserve's latest dot plot turns out to be accurate. The dot plot is updated each time the Federal Reserve votes on whether to raise or ...