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For now, traders are penciling in many more cuts to rates through 2024 than the Fed itself has indicated.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2024

Inventory investment is a wild card, though most economists are penciling in a contribution to GDP growth of at least five tenths of a percentage point.

From Reuters • Jul. 27, 2023

Economists polled by Bloomberg are penciling in a jump of 180,000 new hires last month, down from a gain of 236,000 in March.

From New York Times • May 1, 2023

Hockey’s National Team Development Program that pro and college scouts are penciling in the left-shooting center as the odds-on favorite for the top spot 14 months from now.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2018

Track officials, who retain the TV rights, are penciling in an amount at least triple the current take.

From Time Magazine Archive