Every three months, the central bank updates a scatter chart showing where top officials believe rates are headed. Not everyone is a fan of the anonymous projections.

(Bloomberg) -- 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 ...

Investors get monthly interest rate updates from the Fed throughout the year, but four times per year the Fed also issues its Summary of Economic Projections (SEP). The SEP includes a chart of ...

Economists expect the Federal Reserve’s so-called dot plot chart to show a more hawkish monetary policy outlook when the central bank releases it this week, compared with the Fed’s last round of ...