It's all about the dots. Image source: iStock/Thinkstock. If you have any interest in bank stocks, then I have a chart you're going to want to see. It's called the dot plot. The dot plot is updated ...

The Fed’s dot plot is a chart that records each Fed official’s projection for the central bank’s key short-term interest rate. The dot plot is updated every three months and is meant to provide ...

“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 ...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday surprised markets with a fortification of its higher-for-longer stance on interest rates, penciling in only half as many rate cuts next year as had been expected. Fed ...

Wall Street closely watches Federal Reserve meetings, but it's not just the decision on interest rates that makes headlines. The central bank's dot plot is a key quarterly forecast for both investors ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 01: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell arrives to testify during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, on March 1, 2018 in ...

Federal Reserve officials aren’t quite sure what to do about their dots. Every quarter, the central bank produces a chart of 19 officials’ individual projections for interest rates, with a dot ...

Bank stocks could be in for another great year if the Federal Reserve's latest dot plot turns out to be accurate. The dot plot is updated each time the Federal Reserve votes on whether to raise or ...