Investors focus on the median dot. As many as 19 monetary policymakers ... What good is a projection of the Fed funds rate? The dot plot was invented in late 2011, at a time when Fed officials ...

While it was created with good intentions 13 years ago, the Federal Open Market Committee’s dot plot does not serve its primary purpose: providing transparency ...

the dot plot has 19 individual projections. Of course, it’s all kept anonymous, and no one knows which official is which dot.

These 'dots' could move markets Federal Reserve officials publish their forecasts for the central bank’s key interest rate on a chart known as the 'dot plot.' Below, we've highlighted the median ...

The median forecasts in the so-called “dot plot” implied another half-point of cuts in 2026, then a quarter-point decrease in 2027, which would take the target range to 3.0% to 3.25%.