The Federal Reserve's rate path "dot plot" has become increasingly detached from financial markets' interest-rate projections and risks sending an overly hawkish message that may undermine the ...

The Fed’s “dot plot” showed that the median forecast for rate cuts in 2025 was now a half-percentage point, lower than their September projections.

The dot plot, decoded When the central bank releases its Summary of Economic Projections each quarter, Fed watchers focus obsessively on one part in particular: the so-called dot plot.