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.

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The dot plot represents projections by each Fed official of future fed funds rates. Each dot on the chart represents one Fed official. However, the dot plot is anonymous, so investors can’t tie ...

Mahn emphasizes the importance of understanding the chart's complexity: “The one thing to remember about this dot plot chart though [is] each dot represents a different view of that voting member for ...

A look at the dot-plot in June, the last time the Fed updated the chart, showed that no one expected rates to finish the year at their current level. Here is the dot plot from the June meeting: ...

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 ...

Now, we've seen this, right, the dot plots a million times. But you probably haven't seen this chart, which actually is also part of the dot plot document.

The problem starts with the misunderstood and often misreported quarterly dot plots that purport to show the “central tendency” of the Federal Open Market Committee’s interest-rate policy ...

When the Fed last released its "dot-plot" forecasts, many observers were taken aback by what appeared to be a greater appetite among some officials to start raising rates.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The European Central Bank needs to improve how it communicates policy intentions and uncertainty, but copying the U.S. Federal Reserve's "dot plot" projection method is not ...