For more business and finance explainers, check out our Yahoo U page. Since 2011, the Federal Reserve has published a chart known as the “dot plot,” which maps out policymakers’ expectations for where ...

The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates on Wednesday by 25 basis points to a range of 4.25%-4.5% at its final meeting of the year and signaled that it would slow down the pace of its cuts. Along ...

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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 ...

The Federal Reserve's latest "dot plot" outlining future interest rate moves suggests the central bank will still cut rates twice this year, unchanged from its March outlook, though June's forecast ...

Federal Reserve officials aren’t quite sure what to do about their dots. Every quarter, the central bank produces a chart of 19 officials’ individual projections for interest rates, with a dot ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's rate path "dot plot" has become increasingly detached from financial markets' interest-rate projections and risks sending an overly hawkish message that ...