As investors, wouldn't it be nice if we had a crystal ball that could tell us the future direction of interest rates? Well, we do...sort of. At the conclusion of its four meetings each year that ...

(Bloomberg) -- 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 ...

Want to know where interest rates are headed? While there's no way to predict exactly what will happen, the Federal Reserve has tools that some people look to for insights. Among them is the Fed's dot ...

Investors get monthly interest rate updates from the Fed throughout the year, but four times per year the Fed also issues its Summary of Economic Projections (SEP). The SEP includes a chart of ...

Federal Reserve policymakers cut interest rates for the third straight meeting on Wednesday while signaling there may be only one cut next year as rates get closer to a neutral level. The Fed lowered ...

Federal Reserve's Dot Plot Could Tell You About the Future of Interest Rates, Job Market Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter. He's written hundreds of articles breaking ...

After each Federal Reserve meeting, market analysts, desperate to divine future monetary policy, scrutinize every aspect of the central bank’s public statements—including its “dot plot,” released four ...

Polo Rocha has written about economics and banking for a decade. Mandel NGAN / AFP via Getty Images The Federal Reserve's dot plot, which shows policymakers' interest rate projections, may be ...