The Federal Reserve introduced a visual tool called the "dot plot" in 2012 to communicate where officials think interest rates should be in the coming years. The dot plot is eagerly dissected by Fed ...

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 ...

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The dot plot was invented in late 2011, at a time when Fed officials were considering how to prepare markets for the shift they hoped to make away from the unprecedented array of monetary support ...

The primary interest of Fed watchers in next week’s policy meeting will be on the ‘dot plot’ that collects the interest-rate views of all Fed officials.

These predictions are commonly displayed via a dot plot where each dot represents a FOMC participant's prediction of the Fed Funds Rate at the end of each calendar year.

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For example, this week’s dot plot showed that 9 of the 17 thought the appropriate Fed funds range by the end of 2016 would be the range between 0.75% and 1.0%. They called that the median.

The Fed’s dot plot is a chart updated quarterly that records each Fed official’s projection for the central bank’s key short-term interest rate, the federal funds rate.