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 the Federal Reserve expected to hold interest rates steady this week, the forward-looking dot plot will be in the limelight when the central bank’s two-day policy meeting concludes Wednesday. The ...

President Trump expressed confidence that he could remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell from his position. WSJ’s Nick Timiraos and former Fed Vice Chairman Richard Clarida explain how much ...

The Fed trimmed its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point on Wednesday, its first reduction of 2025.

The Federal Reserve's latest "dot plot" outlining future interest rate moves suggests the central bank will still cut rates twice this year, unchanged from its March outlook, though June's forecast ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve concluded its meeting exactly as market watchers had expected: by keeping interest rates steady. While a cut might have been a pleasant surprise to some — as lower interest ...

Fed officials see more rate cuts in the remainder of 2025 than they did previously—a shift that suggests they are growing increasingly worried about the economic outlook and the weakening labor market ...

The latest dot plot seemed to signal that Fed officials’ internal consensus on rate cuts is weakening. The range of forecasts for where the bank’s target for the federal-finds rate is going appeared ...

The Federal Reserve marked down its 2025 interest rate outlook while keeping the following year's projection steady, with a softening labor market outweighing concerns about inflation re-accelerating, ...

Lauren Saidel-Baker, an economist with ITR Economics, noted, this year “Fed officials have scaled back expectations for rate cuts in 2025 as inflation remains sticky.” The Federal Open Market ...

The FOMC dot plot, a chart that shows where each member of the FOMC expects rates to trend in the future, showed that the majority of members expect two more rate cuts in 2025 and only one more in ...