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 ...

Wall Street closely watches Federal Reserve meetings, but it's not just the decision on interest rates that makes headlines. The central bank's dot plot is a key quarterly forecast for both investors ...

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.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the management of wealth, portfolios, and finances. The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC or Fed) meets ...

There are reasons to think the Federal Reserve’s new dot-plot chart could look different when released Wednesday, and likely more hawkish than the one from December. The chart maps out where each Fed ...

Economists expect the Federal Reserve’s so-called dot plot chart to show a more hawkish monetary policy outlook when the central bank releases it this week, compared with the Fed’s last round of ...

FOMC participants' assessments of appropriate monetary policy: Midpoint of target range or target level for the federal funds rate. Image source: Federal Reserve. The thing to note isn't the fact that ...