The (Dot) Plot Thickens as Fed Hawkish on Outlook but Dovish on Rates

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell would be forgiven for thinking he was handed a third dimension to the central bank’s dual mandate of ensuring full employment with price stability.

What is the Fed's outlook for interest rate cuts, inflation and jobs for the remainder of the year?

Federal Reserve policymakers projected inflation will rise to 3% in 2025 while unemployment will reach 4.5% as the central ...

The Fed’s ‘Difficult Situation’: Reading Between the Lines of the September Dot Plot

An unusual combination of sticky inflation and a cooling labor market complicates the Fed’s calculus for future rate cuts.
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Using this Google Sheets function to visualize my data is oddly satisfying

At its core, the SPARKLINE function in Google Sheets takes a row of numbers and turns them into a mini chart that lives right inside a single cell. Instead of inserting a full-sized chart that eats up ...

The Dot Plot, Explained: How the Fed Forecasts Interest Rates

Every three months, the central bank updates a scatter chart showing where top officials believe rates are headed. Not everyone is a fan of the anonymous projections.

Microsoft brings free Copilot Chat to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more, but there’s a catch

Microsoft has rolled out a free version of Copilot Chat inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote for Microsoft ...
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I didn’t know these Excel functions existed, but now I can’t live without them

W hen you're working with data in Excel, certain tasks can feel unnecessarily tedious. Maybe you need to split a column of full names into separate first and last name columns, or combine text from ...