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The Fed’s Dot-Plot Predicament: False Precision in Uncertain Times

On the eve of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision, traders, economists and central-bank watchers across Wall Street are fixated on a single, perplexing question: Will the median of 19 policymakers ...
Reuters

Fed's Goolsbee: US rate-path 'dot plot' needs more context

PALO ALTO, California, May 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve should beef up its quarterly "dot plot" of policymakers' interest-rate-path views by including the individual economic expectations ...
NPR

Has the Fed lost the dot plot?

The Federal Reserve introduced a visual tool called the "dot plot" in 2012 to communicate where officials think interest rates should be in the coming years. The dot plot is eagerly dissected by Fed ...
Wall Street Journal

Heard on the Street Recap: Dot Matrix

The dot plot thickened Wednesday. Investors probably should have maintained their sense of disbelief. While rates were left unchanged, as expected, the so-called dot-plot indicated that some Federal ...
Morningstar

The Problem With Wall Street's Fixation on the Fed Dot Plot

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep interest rates on hold Wednesday, shifting focus to officials' economic and rate projections. Wall Street is focused on whether the Fed's dot plot will ...