The Problem With Wall Street’s Fixation on the Fed Dot Plot The rate projections give investors and analysts a false sense of precision. Some Fed officials are tired of them.

The bigger problem, though, is that even if the Fed kept the dot plot under wraps, the same problem would exist. The Fed has no forecasting superpowers. And that’s a problem for a few reasons.

The Federal Reserve has released its decision on interest rates, opting to hold rates steady. However, the dot plot hints at the possibility of at least one rate cut on the horizon. To dissect the ...

The Federal Reserve's 'dot plot' and economic projections showed that Fed officials aren't hurrying to cut interest rates and expect unemployment to rise while inflation remains stubbornly high.

The Fed’s closely followed “ dot plot ” showed more reductions to the influential fed funds rate, likely at its upcoming meetings and into next year. The latest projections showed that the ...

The problem with Wall Street’s fixation on the Fed dot plot The rate projections give investors and analysts a false sense of precision. Some Fed officials are tired of them.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell appeared to pre-emptively play down the projections in a recent speech.” Needless to say, this is not a problem with the dot plot, which is perfectly comprehensible.

The dot plot was invented in late 2011, at a time when Fed officials were considering how to prepare markets for the shift they hoped to make away from the unprecedented array of monetary support ...

(Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday signaled potential changes for the Fed's closely watched "dot plot" interest-rate projections as part of a broad policy framework review ...

If the Federal Reserve’s “dot plot” reveals anything, it’s that the stewards of the American economy are even more pessimistic now than they were just a few months ago about how fast the U ...

The most fundamental problem with the dot plots, however, is that it robs the FOMC of flexibility. Obviously, the participates’ views changed during all the market turmoil in January and ...