“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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Weinstein covers topics ranging from the Fed to the cost of college. Sep 17, 2025, 10:48pm EDT At its September 17th meeting the ...

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed modestly lower, with futures contracts reversing the losses, following the 0.25% interest rate reduction from the Federal Reserve, with the updated 'dot plot' only ...

Investors know that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell won't be delivering his revised outlook and path of interest rates much longer, as his term at the helm of the central bank is ending in May ...

Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday penciled in slightly steeper interest rate cuts this year and next, but there was a wide array of responses in the so-called dot plot, signaling uncertainty ...

Federal Reserve policymakers cut interest rates for the third straight meeting on Wednesday while signaling there may be only one cut next year as rates get closer to a neutral level. The Fed lowered ...

The Fed's dot-plot shows a split over whether to the central bank should cut rates three times this year. According to the Fed's "dot-plot" three were 9 officials who wanted only 2 cuts or less. There ...

The Fed delivered on its highly anticipated rate cut Wednesday afternoon. But where rates go from here is a coin toss, at best. Fed members’ latest forecasts for interest rates in 2026 diverge ...

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The Federal Reserve was already wrestling with a lot of uncertainty about the future path of monetary policy, and President Trump’s weekend strike on Iran’s nuclear sites will likely make that path ...