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.

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 ...

Going forward, check out the CME FedWatch tool, and keep an eye on the updated Dot Plots. They’ll provide you valuable information as you chart the course for your own portfolio.

The Fed’s dot plots are a terrible predictor of future rates policy. In fact, all predictions of rates and inflation have been just awful. Watch the yield curve in the next week or two if you want a ...

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: ...

Each dot on the chart represents one Fed official. However, the dot plot is anonymous, so investors can’t tie individual projections to individual Fed officials.

The dot plot was invented in late 2011, at a time when Fed officials were considering how to prepare markets for the shift they hoped to make away from the unprecedented array of monetary support ...

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 ...

The Federal Reserve’s dot plot of interest-rate projections continued to show the median forecast is still just for three rises this year, confounding some who have been expecting four.

Tech rises then falls based on the FOMC meeting … evaluating the odds of a rate hike … tools you can use to help plan your market approach On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) ...