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 ...

Put it in neutral. One important trick for reading the dot plot? Pay attention to where the numbers fall in relation to the longer-run median projection.

However, the data is anonymized. Investors typically view the median result in the dot plot as the Fed’s overall projection for interest rates, though the opinions of individual members can diverge.

The Fed's so-called "dot plot" forecast -- made up of individual projections on interest rates from policymakers -- penciled in just one rate cut for 2024. But the so-called median dot may not be ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday signaled potential changes for the Fed's closely watched "dot plot" interest-rate projections as part of a broad policy framework review underway at ...

"The median of the dot plot will likely migrate to three rate hikes or maybe even two quarter-point rate hikes for 2016," predicted Bank of the West economist Scott Anderson.

One important trick for reading the dot plot? Pay attention to where the numbers fall in relation to the longer-run median projection.