The Federal Reserve’s dot plot predicts the federal funds rate for the next few years, helping officials understand the central bank’s potential decisions Jared Macarin is an editorial veteran ...

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 prov ...

When the central bank releases its Summary of Economic Projections each quarter, Fed watchers focus obsessively on one part in particular: the so-called dot plot. The dot plot will show Fed ...

As is often the case, the focus will be on Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s post-meeting press conference and officials’ updated Summary of Economic Projections, or the so-called Dot Plot.