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5 guides in Finabase Learn
- FOMC meetings: schedule, statement, minutes and how to read them What happens at the Fed’s eight yearly FOMC meetings, the 2:00 p.m. statement, press conference and minutes, and every rate step from 2008 to 2026.
- How Fed decisions move markets: expectations, surprises and yields Why markets react to Fed surprises rather than decisions, how fed funds futures and the 2-year yield price the rate path, and what 2015–2026 data show.
- The economic calendar: when US data come out and how to read them When the jobs report, CPI, GDP, retail sales and FOMC decisions are released, who publishes them, and how to read the consensus, actual and prior columns.
- The Fed dot plot: how to read the FOMC’s rate projections What each dot in the Fed’s dot plot means, how the median and central tendency are built, what the September 2026 projections showed, and why dots are not promises.
- The Federal Reserve: structure, mandate and policy tools How the Fed is organized, what its dual mandate means, the tools it uses to set interest rates, and seven decades of the fed funds rate in one chart.
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