Target federal funds rate at year-end, dot plot column Longer run

federal funds rate in : 4 %

Source

Verdict

Not graded yet.

The same forecast in other editions

• 2012-014.25 %
• 2012-044.25 %
• 2012-064.25 %
• 2012-094 %
• 2012-124 %
• 2013-034 %
• 2013-064 %
• 2013-094 %
• 2013-124 %
• 2014-034 %
• 2014-063.75 %
• 2014-093.75 %
• 2014-123.75 %
• 2015-033.75 %

All captured fields

variable

federal funds rate

metric

federal funds rate

statistic

median (computed from dot plot)

horizon

longer_run

value

4

unit

%

definition

Value at the end of the year indicated of the appropriate target level (or midpoint of the target range) for the federal funds rate

confidence

medium

note

Median computed by Hindsight from the published dot plot (17 participants); the SEP did not publish a median before September 2015. FRED series FEDTARMDLR gives 4.0 for this release.