With today's Federal Reserve rate decision seen as a foregone conclusion, many investors will look to the central bank's economic and interest-rate projections for a sense of how eager Chair Jerome ...

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 ...

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 ...

Interest rates were super low two years ago, which proved to be a mixed bag for individuals. On the plus side, debt was cheap – a 30-year mortgage was about 3% – but on the downside, savers earned a ...

The Fed is expected to keep unchanged rates at its March meeting. Market attention is focused on the dot plot. If the Fed suggests fewer cuts than expected, it could trigger a bearish market response ...

The Federal Reserve's latest policy decision is set for release on Wednesday afternoon. And the day's biggest story won't be about what the Fed does but about what the central bank suggests it may do ...

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Powell says that a soft landing is the primary objective of the Fed. However, when Powell was prompted to say that a soft landing was a baseline expectation, Powell specifically said that a soft ...

One of Wall Street's top inflation forecasters says investors should not be smitten with the Federal Reserve's so-called dot plot in trying to figure out how many interest-rate cuts are coming. "In ...

The bulk of Federal Reserve officials still see one more interest-rate hike this year, but fed funds rate projections for 2024 and 2025 both increased by half a percentage point, according to the ...