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The auto parts maker borrowed around $11 billion in loans and invoice financing while rapidly growing through acquisitions, but ran out of steam this year when its interest costs snowballed.

That was until Sunday, when - with a snowballing number of Republicans in the House signalling they would vote to release them - the president relented and encouraged them to do so.

The selloff has pushed several major indexes roughly halfway to correction territory, raising concerns about whether the market downturn might snowball into something bigger before year-end.

That’s because it provides a buffer against many surprise expenses that may wind up as credit-card debt, which is often hard to pay off and snowballs due to high interest rates.

Artificial intelligence has snowballed from a technological innovation to the growth driver of the entire economy and a national-security interest.