It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months since January 2012, ...

Want to know where interest rates are headed? During tumultuous economic times, it's normal to search for answers about what's to come for your finances. While there's no way to predict exactly what ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: Jerome Powell, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman, speaks at a press conference after a Federal Open Market Committee meeting at the Federal Reserve on January 29, 2025 in ...

As investors, wouldn't it be nice if we had a crystal ball that could tell us the future direction of interest rates? Well, we do...sort of. At the conclusion of its four meetings each year that ...

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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 ...

Despite numerous lectures by Chairman Yellen about the proper interpretation of the dot plots, most talking heads still don’t get it. They insist on treating them as a promise of things to come. In ...

After the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate decision, you may be tempted to try and start connecting some dots. That’s because U.S. central bankers updated their closely scrutinized “Summary of ...