tone

The 30-year-old set the tone early with a full delivery in his first over that had Young trapped plumb in front.

In more recent decades, the “Scream” franchise and Jordan Peele’s projects owe a considerable debt to the tone set by Willard and Leni.

For weeks, automakers and suppliers have publicly sounded an optimistic tone, pointing to the industry’s lessons from a semiconductor crisis a few years ago that kneecapped production around the world.

"The Fed -- the world's most influential central bank -- is clearly back in easing mode, and that alone resets the global risk-on tone," said Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management.

Yet there’s a fair amount of trepidation around the tone Fed Chair Jerome Powell might strike during his Wednesday afternoon press conference.