Glossary

Summary of Economic Projections and the dot plot (SEP)

The Summary of Economic Projections is a release in which FOMC meeting participants submit their own economic projections, and the Fed publishes a compiled summary with individual projections shown without names. It comes with selected FOMC meetings, and the Board's calendar marks which ones. The dot plot is the name commonly used for the chart of participants' individual projections in that release.

Not confirmed: The Board page fetched for this entry describes the Summary of Economic Projections but does not describe the dot plot chart itself. The sentence naming the dot plot is a general description and is not copied from an official page.

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