(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 ...

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After the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate decision, you may be tempted to try and start connecting some dots. That’s because U.S. central bankers updated their closely scrutinized “Summary of ...

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 ...

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 ...