Housing starts fell, but building permits went up. This indicates that high interest rates are beginning to reduce immediate demand for housing, but builders remain optimistic for the future. Here are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Right now, there's a gap between what Fed policymakers are projecting on interest rates and what the market is saying. That's best viewed through this chart, from the CME's handy Fed watch tool, on ...

It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months since January 2012, the Federal Reserve has sent analysts scurrying by updating its “dot plot, ...

A Federal Reserve report in the coming week will show that central bank officials expect fewer cuts to interest rates in the coming year, according to economists at financial-services firm J.P. Morgan ...

Ben Bernanke is not importing to the U.K. the “dot plot” that dominates the Fed’s communications with investors. A review of the Bank of England’s poor forecasts, which was headed by the former ...

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell boosted market sentiment this week by suggesting that any impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on inflation would only be "transitory." The central bank ...