Wall Street closely watches Federal Reserve meetings, but it's not just the decision on interest rates that makes headlines.

Every three months, the central bank updates a scatter chart showing where top officials believe rates are headed. Not everyone is a fan of the anonymous projections.

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 ...

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, ...

The Fed's dot-plot shows a split over whether to the central bank should cut rates three times this year. According to the ...

Several things happen on Fed Day--especially on the 4 out of 8 examples with updated rate forecasts from Fed members.  The ...

All eyes are on tonight's Fed meeting, where a 25bp rate cut is widely expected. The dollar has been selling off ahead of ...

The Federal Reserve marked down their 2025 and 2026 interest rate outlook, with a softening labor market outweighing concerns ...

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Richard Moody, chief economist at Regions Financial Corp., said the Fed’s interest-rate committee has become more divided in ...

Officials previously estimated in June that rates would be drawn down by half a percentage point from the current range of 4.25% to 4.5% in 2025, but slightly slowed the pace for next year and 2027 to ...

See the FOMC's 2026 outlook for rate cuts. Projections signal a shallow easing path. Includes expert reactions.