(Bloomberg) -- It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months ...

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 ...

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The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting is the pivotal event for the markets this week, possibly even the most crucial one of the entire first quarter of 2024. While the customary ...

Municipals and U.S. Treasuries were little changed after the Federal Reserve held rates steady, while equities ended mixed. The Federal Open Market Committee's decision to "hold rates steady while ...

China's National People's Congress convened this week and set a growth target of 5%. There are rumors that the US Federal Reserve’s March dot plot will show expectations for an average of only two ...

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 ...

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 ...

The yield on the 10-year US Treasury bond (US10Y) should be 3.75% based on 2.5% inflation and the Federal Reserve’s latest Summary of Economic Projections (SEP), according to famed bond investor Bill ...

The FOMC includes 19 participants who contribute to the dot plot: the seven Board of Governors and the twelve regional Federal Reserve Bank pr ...