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 ...

An alternate way to display similar information is with a dot chart. A 10-by-10 grid of dots can be color-coded, with each dot representing one percentage point. The same logic should follow in that ...

The Federal Reserve’s so-called dot plot, which it uses to signal its outlook for the path of interest rates, shows that policy makers expect one quarter-point rate increase this year.

(Reuters) - Like one of those old Op-Art posters beloved of hippies, staring too long into the Fed’s dot chart of interest rate expectations can make you see things which aren’t there.

A look at the dot-plot in June, the last time the Fed updated the chart, showed that no one expected rates to finish the year at their current level.