For some of these clues, Fed watchers will turn to The Dot Plot. The Dot Plot is a chart that shows where the FOMC's 16 members think the Fed's benchmark interest rate will be at the end of each ...

The dot plot is a graph showing where individual Fed policymakers expect official interest rates to be over time. The "median dot" is watched for a clue to the consensus outlook. In March ...

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.