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 US stock market has lost trillions of dollars in value in the days since President Donald Trump announced major tariffs ...

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 ...

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 Federal Reserve concluded its second meeting of the year by keeping the federal funds rate (FFR ... and market movements. The chart below shows the tool’s predictions through the end ...