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Danger feels suspended in the soft-blue light, in which the lion’s tail and the round, silvery moon, balanced just-so, are poised like a raised mallet and gong.

The top brokerages of today may be poised for further declines if the customers of these firms continue to sell crypto holdings and tech stocks tied to the artificial-intelligence trade, Lamont said.

They have been hit harder by tariff and interest-rate uncertainty, and are now poised to benefit from perceived stability after the end of the government shutdown.

Scotland's resident doctors - previously known as junior doctors - were poised to strike in the summer of 2023 but the action was called off after a new pay offer.

Senior administration officials on Thursday singled out coffee, cocoa and bananas as examples of imports from the four Latin American countries that are poised to escape tariffs.