The Fed's graph of members' interest rates projections for times a year is a closely watched indicator on Wall Street ...

These predictions are commonly displayed via a dot plot where each dot represents a FOMC participant's prediction of the Fed Funds Rate at the end of each calendar year.

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 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.

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 so-called dot plot of interest rate projections implies rates will be left unchanged this year, compared with December when the Fed seemed to indicate two increases.

Economists expect the Federal Reserve’s so-called dot plot chart to show a more hawkish monetary policy outlook when the central bank releases it this week, compared with the Fed’s last round ...