The Fed announced it intends to raise the benchmark Fed funds rate to a range between 1.25% and 1.5%. The Federal Open Market Committee also released its quarterly "dot plot," showing where Fed ...

Listen to the Here’s Why podcast on Apple, Spotify or anywhere you listen.. What is plotted on the dot plot? It’s a chart showing estimates of what the federal funds rate, the short-term ...

The new dot plot is very similar. The median member again saw the rate ending 2018 in a range between 2% and 2.25%, suggesting three hikes next year. Over the longer term, the median member ...

But the big question is how much they will lower them in the years ahead — and that is what the dot plot could answer, by showing where officials expect rates to end up in 2025 and 2026. Put it ...

For the end of 2026, the median dot on Wednesday showed an unchanged target range of 3% to 3.25%. Officials’ median longer-run estimate of the fed-funds rate moved up by a quarter of a point for ...

The median dot projects rates to settle at 2.9% by the end of 2019, and 3.4% in 2020. That's up from 3.1% in the most recent projections released in December. The new dot plot is very similar.

It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months since January 2012, the Federal Reserve has sent analysts scurrying by updating its ...

The dot plot will show Fed policymakers’ estimates for interest rates at the end of the next several years and over the longer run. The forecasts are represented by dots arranged along a ...