What is plotted on the dot plot? It’s a chart showing estimates of what the federal funds rate, the short-term interest rate controlled by the Fed, should be.

It explains when logarithmic graphs with base 2 are preferred to logarithmic graphs with base 10. It also explains several advantages that dot plots have over bar charts.

The most common software is Excel. Although a number of sites give instructions for drawing dot plots in Excel, it is tedious to follow their instructions.

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. Here is the dot plot from the June meeting: ...

Bank stocks could be in for another great year if the Federal Reserve's latest dot plot turns out to be accurate.

The Federal Reserve’s latest dot plot of interest rate projections signalled a total of four interest rates rises this year and put the median view of the federal funds rate at 2.4 per cent at ...