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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

After each Federal Reserve meeting, market analysts, desperate to divine future monetary policy, scrutinize every aspect of the central bank’s public statements—including its “dot plot,” released four ...

On the eve of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision, traders, economists and central-bank watchers across Wall Street are fixated on a single, perplexing question: Will the median of 19 policymakers ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates this past week by a quarter of a percentage point. But where rates go from here is a coin toss, at best, given that Fed members’ latest forecasts diverge widely.