But, unlike a bar chart, which uses length to relay position, Cleveland dot plots use position. William S. Cleveland created the notion of a continuous variable in his book Elements of Graphing Data.

Federal Reserve policymakers have maintained a steady approach to interest rates over the last year, keeping the target range ...

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 plots are not FOMC commitments or an aggregate view of the FOMC. They are a collection of individual economic forecasts based on the most likely scenario and their view of appropriate policy.

Yahoo Finance Live's Julie Hyman breaks down how to make sense of the Federal Reserve's 'Dot Plot' or Summary of Economic Projections. DAVE BRIGGS: When it comes to our coverage of the Federal ...

The Federal Reserve’s dot plot is a graph that contains the Federal Open Market Committee participants’ forecasts of where they think the federal funds rate will head over the next several years.

Every three months since January 2012, the Federal Reserve has sent analysts scurrying by updating its “dot plot,” which has become the de facto monetary policy forecast of the US central bank ...

After each Federal Reserve meeting, market analysts, desperate to divine future monetary policy, scrutinize every aspect of the central bank’s public statements—including its “dot plot,” released four ...