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The Federal Reserve’s latest dot plot, explained – and what it says about interest rate cuts

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 dot plot is updated every three months and is meant to provide ...
Bloomberg L.P.

The Dot Plot, Explained: Understanding How the Fed Forecasts

It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months since January 2012, the Federal Reserve has sent analysts scurrying by updating its “dot plot, ...
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How the Fed’s Dot Plot, Political Pressures, and Tariffs Shape Rate-Cut Expectations and Market Reactions

“The dots are not a great forecaster of future rate moves,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has warned, but every quarter the financial universe ponders the FOMC’s dot plot as though it were a ...
Wall Street Journal

The Federal Reserve’s Dot-Plot Predicament

With today's Federal Reserve rate decision seen as a foregone conclusion, many investors will look to the central bank's economic and interest-rate projections for a sense of how eager Chair Jerome ...

Divided Fed lowers rates, signals pause and one cut next year as growth rebounds

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - A sharply divided Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday but signaled borrowing costs ...