Since 2011, the Fed has published a chart known as the “dot plot,” which map out policymakers’ expectations for where interest rates could be headed in the future.

The Fed dot plot is a quarterly chart with FOMC participants’ predictions about what the federal funds rate will be over the next two to three years and in the longer term. The dot plot provides ...

Fed policymakers make individual interest rate projections which are then represented as dots in a graph and indicate to market participants where rates may be heading.

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 ...

What is plotted on the dot plot? It’s a chart showing estimates of what the federal funds rate, the short-term interest rate controlled by the Fed, should be. Members of the rate-setting Federal ...

Bank stocks could be in for another great year if the Federal Reserve's latest dot plot turns out to be accurate.

The Federal Reserve’s dot plot of interest-rate projections continued to show the median forecast is still just for three rises this year, confounding some who have been expecting four.