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 benchmark Federal Funds Rate, which controls the cost of short-term borrowing like credit cards and auto loans, currently is 3.75% to 4%. The FOMC held the rate steady for most of the year. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

Economists expect the Federal Reserve’s so-called dot plot chart to show a more hawkish monetary policy outlook when the central bank releases it this week, compared with the Fed’s last round of ...

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 its “dot plot, ...