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New Fed dot plot sends markets sliding

Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 Major market indexes all took a slide this afternoon — already trading in the red as of the news release from the latest Fed meeting on interest rates — largely on comments ...
The so-called dot plot, which tells us the interest-rate forecasts of the Fed's top 19 officials, shows that one interest-rate cut is still quite likely this year. Two rate cuts are looking less ...
Most Federal Reserve officials expect the pace of interest-rate reductions to slow next year and beyond as inflation proves sticky, according to the central bank's updated Summary of Economic ...
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 Federal Reserve introduced a visual tool called the "dot plot" in 2012 to communicate where officials think interest rates should be in the... Has the Fed lost the dot plot? The Federal Reserve ...
Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma joins anchor Josh Lipton to break down the Federal Reserve's latest dot plot projections, highlighting expectations for steady interest rates, a potential ...
Bonds were modestly weaker overnight, but have moved back into positive territory after this morning's Employment Cost Index and NYSE. This means 10yr yields are at the bleeding edge of the 3-month ...
It’s a near certainty among economists and investors that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates for a third straight time on Wednesday, but what happens in 2025 remains a relative mystery.
Bonds lost some ground after this morning's economic data, arguably in response to the Retail Sales control group beating its forecast. Higher-than-expected import prices could also have played a ...
The Federal Reserve's so-called dot plot showed a median estimate of 3.4% for the federal funds rate at the end of 2026, the same as what it had projected at the end of last year. However, a closer ...
Richard Moody, chief economist at Regions Financial Corp., said the Fed’s interest-rate committee has become more divided in recent months. These divisions will be easy to spot in the Fed’s new ...
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 ...