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Higher longer-duration borrowing rates, however, could keep the housing market on ice, stifle returns in the highflying tech sector and potentially point to a slowing labor market, plus a toxic brew of inflation.

"Jack della Maddalena has the skills to stifle Islam's game and put it on the feet and knock him out, might be second round, might be third."

The rain could even end up being a helpful follow-up to the precipitation from the past few weeks to stifle the possibility of wildfires.

The EU faces significant pressure to water down or delay the implementation of the AI Act from tech companies and lobby groups, which say the rules add red tape and stifle innovation.

The California Chamber of Commerce, a broad-based business advocacy group that includes tech giants, launched a campaign this year that warned over-regulation could stifle innovation and hinder California.