Fed Officials Are Divided in Their Interest-Rate Outlook. How to Make Sense of the ‘Dot Plot’

The Federal Reserve’s quarterly Summary of Economic Projections revealed an unusually wide range of estimates for future interest rates. But don’t ignore it.
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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 ...
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Fed Chair Powell Signals Possible Tweaks to 'Dot Plot' Rate-Path Forecasts

(Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday signaled potential changes for the Fed's closely watched "dot plot" interest-rate projections as part of a broad policy framework review ...
Bloomberg L.P.

The Dot Plot, Explained: How the Fed Forecasts Interest Rates

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, ...
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 ...
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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Fed dot plot reveals more divided central bank, but still points to two rate cuts in 2025

The Federal Reserve's latest "dot plot" outlining future interest rate moves suggests the central bank will still cut rates twice this year, unchanged from its March outlook, though June's forecast ...

One Fed member wants to cut interest rates like crazy this year

The Fed's projections show the median member expected another half percentage point of cuts in 2025. One member called for ...
Reuters

ECB needs clearer communication - but not dot plots, Nagel says

WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank needs to improve how it communicates policy intentions and uncertainty, but copying the U.S. Federal Reserve's "dot plot" projection method is ...
Business Insider

How many more interest-rate cuts are coming? Here's what you should be watching in Jerome Powell's big speech.

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Fed Officials Are Divided in Their Interest-Rate Outlook. How to Make Sense of the ‘Dot Plot.’

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates this past week by a quarter of a percentage point. But where rates go from here is a coin toss, at best, given that Fed members’ latest forecasts diverge widely.