Fed to start monetary policy forecasts from January Jan 3 03:05 PM US/Eastern The Federal Reserve will begin providing interest rate signals in its economic forecasts for the first time in January, a major step to improve communications with the public and financial markets. Participants at the central bank's last policy-setting meeting "decided to incorporate information about their projections of appropriate monetary policy into the SEP (Summary of Economic Projections) beginning in January," the minutes of the December 13 meeting said.