Every three months since January 2012, the Federal Reserve has sent analysts scurrying by updating its “dot plot,” which has become the de facto monetary policy forecast of the US central bank — ...

The Fed’s dot plot is a chart updated quarterly that records each Fed official’s projection for the central bank’s key ...

Introduction to interest In simple words ... and IRA services at Georgia's Own Credit Union. The Federal Reserve uses the federal funds rate as a tool for regulating economic activity, which ...

The chart is so-named because it represents each Fed committee member as a nameless dot and lays out on a graph where each predicts the federal funds rate will be at the end of upcoming years.

The latest rate outlook came from the Fed's so-called dot plot, which shows estimates of what the federal funds rate should be over time. As many as 19 members of the policy-setting FOMC each ...

Fed officials see the fed funds rate falling to 3.9% this year, on par with its previous December projection. Coming into the decision, markets had priced in two to three additional rate cuts this ...

it kept the federal funds rate exactly where it is — for now. While inflation cooled a bit in February, it's still running hotter than the Fed's 2% target, which explains the central bank's ...