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 ...

Investors focus on the median dot. As many as 19 monetary policymakers — the seven governors on the Fed Board in Washington and the presidents of the 12 regional banks — can contribute a dot.

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