The dot plot increases transparency over Fed operations, according to Julia Coronado, president and founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives, who used to work for the Fed’s board of governors.

The dot plot was invented in late 2011, at a time when Fed officials were considering how to prepare markets for the shift they hoped to make away from the unprecedented array of monetary support ...

The Federal Reserve’s frequently maligned interest rate projections, compiled in the so-called dot plot, have been doing particularly vital work for the central bank over recent months, a ...

The Federal Reserve’s dot plot predicts the federal funds rate for the next few years, helping officials understand the central bank’s potential decisions ...

The dot plot increases transparency over Fed operations, according to Julia Coronado, president and founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives, who used to work for the Fed’s board of governors.

Investors focus on the median dot. As many as 19 monetary policymakers — the seven governors on the Fed Board in Washington and the presidents of the 12 regional banks — can contribute a dot.

While finding the Fed's dot plot "boring," Sahm Consulting Founder Claudia Sahm critiques the dot plot in its mischaracterization of certain sentiments from "the entire FOMC for the day." ...

The dot plot, decoded When the central bank releases its Summary of Economic Projections each quarter, Fed watchers focus obsessively on one part in particular: the so-called dot plot.

Dot Plot and Gold What is the link between the dot plot used by the Fed and gold? The dot plot – or, actually, the changes in the dot plot – show the shifts in the US central bank’s stance.

Fed officials' message to markets in their latest so-called dot plot: Expect deeper rate cuts by next year than we anticipated just a few months ago. Fourteen of the 19 of central bankers penciled ...

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 officials are now evenly split on whether or not it will be ...