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 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 provide ...

With today's Federal Reserve rate decision seen as a foregone conclusion, many investors will look to the central bank's economic and interest-rate projections for a sense of how eager Chair Jerome ...

Bonds lost some ground after this morning's economic data, arguably in response to the Retail Sales control group beating its forecast. Higher-than-expected import prices could also have played a ...

The Federal Reserve is projecting only one rate cut in 2026, less than expected, according to its median projection. The central bank's so-called dot plot, which anonymously shows 19 individual ...

It’s a near certainty among economists and investors that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates for a third straight time on Wednesday, but what happens in 2025 remains a relative mystery.

Almost nobody expects the Federal Open Market Committee to cut interest rates on Wednesday. That puts investor attention squarely on the policymakers' Summary of Economic Projections, especially the ...

One of Wall Street's top inflation forecasters says investors should not be smitten with the Federal Reserve's so-called dot plot in trying to figure out how many interest-rate cuts are coming. "In ...