Every three months since January 2012, the Federal Reserve has sent analysts scurrying by updating its “dot plot,” which has become the de facto monetary policy forecast of the US central bank ...

The Fed’s dot plot can help clue Fed watchers into how the committee is reacting to the latest economic data. It can also ...

Fed policymakers making forecasts are going to struggle with coming up with a “thread that tells a consistent story,” said Thomas Simons, chief U.S. economist at investment bank Jefferies.

Federal Reserve officials released new projections on the economy and the future path of interest rates Wednesday, the first time they've done so in 2025. Here's how the latest forecast compares with ...

Federal Reserve officials publish their forecasts for the central bank’s key interest rate on a chart known as the 'dot plot.' Below, we've highlighted the median forecast in orange. The ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady, as widely expected, and kept its projection of two rate cuts this year.

in large part because the economic data turns out differently from what is expected by Fed policymakers and, often, economists more generally. At the end of 2021, for instance, the dot plot ...

The Anonymized 'Dot Plot' Could Be Leading Market Watchers Astray ... before the end of the year and that was quickly followed by data showing stickier-than-expected inflation.

Wednesday’s dot plot is likely to imply fewer cuts next ... It will be hard for Powell to shake his “data dependent” slogan, especially given the Fed chair’s desire to avoid commenting ...

(AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) · ASSOCIATED PRESS Amid stagflation fears, recent surveys and sentiment indicators — often referred to as "soft" economic data — have been at the center of ...

March Dot Plot to Highlight Fed Officials’ Outlook In December, the dots showed the median Fed official expected two rate cuts in 2025. This week’s poll will reveal if participants have ...