As investors, wouldn't it be nice if we had a crystal ball that could tell us the future direction of interest rates? Well, we do...sort of. At the conclusion of its four meetings each year that ...

The Federal Reserve’s dot plot is a graph that contains the Federal Open Market Committee participants’ forecasts of where they think the federal funds rate will head over the next several years.

Bank stocks could be in for another great year if the Federal Reserve's latest dot plot turns out to be accurate. The dot plot is updated each time the Federal Reserve votes on whether to raise or ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that financial markets just want the so-called “dot plot” from the Federal Reserve policy meeting next week and will tune everything ...

Powell says that a soft landing is the primary objective of the Fed. However, when Powell was prompted to say that a soft landing was a baseline expectation, Powell specifically said that a soft ...

“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 ...

Federal Reserve officials still see one more interest-rate hike before the end of this year, median forecasts released on Wednesday show. The central bank’s latest Summary of Economic Projections ...

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