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A Marseille equaliser was not exactly a foregone conclusion given how far away Aubameyang was from goal.

“A further reduction in the policy rate at the December meeting is not a foregone conclusion. Far from it,” he said after the October policy decision.

Stealing significant market share from Nvidia is far from a foregone conclusion, investors and analysts say.

Fed boss Jerome Powell said shortly after last month's decision that another move in December was "not a foregone conclusion".

Then came a drawdown in late October, when pressures in overnight lending markets bubbled up and Fed Chair Jerome Powell said another rate cut in December wasn’t “a foregone conclusion.”