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Wall Street closely watches Federal Reserve meetings, but it's not just the decision on interest rates that makes headlines.

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. The dot plot is updated every three months and is meant to provide ...

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.

The US Federal Reserve has cut interest rates for the first time in nine months, reducing the short-term rate to around 4.1%.

By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday explained why the three missions Congress ...

Simplistically, tapering is the ending of economic stimulus policies. It's been hard for Americans to avoid headlines and statements about "tapering" in recent months, as economists and policymakers ...

Powell leads the panel that sets federal monetary policy and was speaking for the first time since the committee voted to cut interest rates.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced that it will leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged, as policymakers decided to hold rates steady amid elevated economic uncertainty as they continue to ...