“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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 01: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell arrives to testify during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, on March 1, 2018 in ...

The Federal Reserve's Summary of Economic Projections, aka the "dot plot," will be the focus for investors when policymakers update their policy outlook Wednesday afternoon. The dot plot is a graph ...

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 ...

European defence stocks fall as US gives Ukraine ultimatum. FOMC expected to cut rates. Focus on dot plot and market weigh up hawkish approach. Joshua Mahony is Chief Markets Analyst at Scope Markets.

The Fed's dot-plot shows a split over whether to the central bank should cut rates three times this year. According to the Fed's "dot-plot" three were 9 officials who wanted only 2 cuts or less. There ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Weinstein covers topics ranging from the Fed to the cost of college. Sep 17, 2025, 10:48pm EDT At its September 17th meeting the ...

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting is the pivotal event for the markets this week, possibly even the most crucial one of the entire first quarter of 2024. While the customary ...

The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates on Wednesday by 25 basis points to a range of 4.25%-4.5% at its final meeting of the year and signaled that it would slow down the pace of its cuts. Along ...

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 ...