(Bloomberg) -- 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 ...

The central bank's Federal Open Market Committee is set to release its quarterly update of where individual officials expect interest rates to head.

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 Reserve's so-called dot plot showed a median estimate of 3.4% for the federal funds rate at the end of 2026, the same as what it had projected at the end of last year. However, a closer ...

Richard Moody, chief economist at Regions Financial Corp., said the Fed’s interest-rate committee has become more divided in recent months. These divisions will be easy to spot in the Fed’s new ...

Hawkish and dovish traders both can claim some vindication from the March economic projections from the Federal Reserve, commonly called the central bank’s “dot plot.” Hawks, those more worried about ...

Federal Reserve officials’ quarterly rate projections showed that nine central bankers expect a rate increase in 2026. That’s according to updated projections known as the “dot plot.” But perhaps the ...

Analysts assess the Federal Reserve’s so-called dot plot, which tracks Fed officials’ estimates of the direction of interest rates.