On the eve of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision, traders, economists and central-bank watchers across Wall Street are fixated on a single, perplexing question: Will the median of 19 policymakers ...

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 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 is projecting only one rate cut in 2026, less than expected, according to its median projection. The central bank's so-called dot plot, which anonymously shows 19 individual ...

With today's Federal Reserve rate decision seen as a foregone conclusion, many investors will look to the central bank's economic and interest-rate projections for a sense of how eager Chair Jerome ...

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.

Almost nobody expects the Federal Open Market Committee to cut interest rates on Wednesday. That puts investor attention squarely on the policymakers' Summary of Economic Projections, especially the ...

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Lauren Saidel-Baker, an economist with ITR Economics, noted, this year “Fed officials have scaled back expectations for rate cuts in 2025 as inflation remains sticky.” The Federal Open Market ...

Whereas last week saw the bond market continue selling off without overt provocation, the first two days of the present week have seen far more equanimity and even resilience. Today's example involved ...