But if you look at the dot plot chart, there's no unanimity there,” says Mahn. “In fact, the dispersion between those thoughts and those forecasts are quite different.

The Fed’s dot plot is a chart updated quarterly that records each Fed official’s projection for the central bank’s key short-term interest rate, the federal funds rate.

For the past four years, bond traders have quickly turned their focus after Federal Reserve meetings to something called the dot plot. A compilation of all 17 policy makers’ predictions on where ...

Interest rate projections by officials at the Federal Open Market Committee A scatter chart titled "The Fed’s dot plot." Interest rate projections by officials at the Federal Open Market ...