(Bloomberg) -- It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months ...

At its June meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee decided to keep its benchmark policy rate unchanged at 4.25%-4.50% as expected. The U.S. economy has defied recession fears, with hard data ...

“The dots are not a great forecaster of future rate moves,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has warned, but every quarter the financial universe ponders the FOMC’s dot plot as though it were a ...

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 ...

Federal Reserve policymakers have maintained a steady approach to interest rates over the last year, keeping the target range unchanged. This policy stance has been despite growing external pressure ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Weinstein covers topics ranging from the Fed to the cost of college. Sep 17, 2025, 10:48pm EDT At its September 17th meeting the ...

The FOMC includes 19 participants who contribute to the dot plot: the seven Board of Governors and the twelve regional Federal Reserve Bank pr ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates this past week by a quarter of a percentage point. But where rates go from here is a coin toss, at best, given that Fed members’ latest forecasts diverge widely.

A Federal Reserve split over where its priorities should lie cut its key interest rate Wednesday in a 9-3 vote, but signaled a tougher road ahead for further reductions. The FOMC's "dot plot" ...