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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.”

“A further reduction in the policy rate at the December meeting is not a foregone conclusion. Far from it.”

This, she said, was often a symptom of shame, despair and the sense that losing one's home is a foregone conclusion.