pencil

Skirts could be very full, with crinolines underneath, or they could be pencil skirts, worn with cinch belts and sweaters with bat-wing sleeves.

Roz carefully opened the lid and examined its contents: a collection of farming magazines, a pair of leather gloves, a pencil nub.

The group announced a 500 million-euro share buyback in line with expectations, which will start once the current one completes, and improved its guidance to a level already penciled in by consensus.

Fed policymakers had previously indicated in their September Summary of Economic Projections that they were penciling in rate cuts at both the October and December meetings.

In September, a narrow majority of officials penciled in two more cuts this year, leaving a reasonable presumption that a December cut remains more likely than not.