🇨🇳 LATEST: China’s wealthy are increasingly comparing Bitcoin with luxury homes as a store of value, citing liquidity, portability and lower regulatory visibility versus high-end real estate.

U.S. initial jobless claims for the week ending January 3 came in at 208k, versus an expected 210k, and the prior week’s figure was revised from 199k to 200k. U.S. trade balance for October was a deficit of $29.4 billion, compared with an expected $58.9 billion deficit, and the