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 ...

It Is probably the most closely scrutinised scatter chart in world financial markets. Every three months since January 2012, the Federal Reserve has sent analysts scurrying by updating its “dot plot”, ...

The summary’s “dot plot” charts each participant’s assessment of the appropriate path for monetary policy given their economic outlook. A new index measuring the level of disagreement indicated by the ...

The Fed’s dot plot is a chart updated quarterly that records each Fed official’s projection for the central bank’s key short-term interest rate, the federal funds rate.

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.

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 ...

The Federal Reserve’s so-called dot plot, which the U.S. central bank uses to signal its outlook for the path of interest rates, shows that officials expect no change in policy this year and ...