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WSJ Minute Briefing

Energy Producers on High Alert as U.S. Braces for Major Winter Storm

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: TikTok finalizes a deal allowing it to keep operating in the U.S. And gold hits a new record with prices nearing $5,000 an ounce. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal.

0:03.0

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the Ultimate Collab.

0:08.0

Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure.

0:11.0

Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal.

0:16.0

Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy, whilst that's last.

0:27.5

Here is your morning brief for Friday, January 23rd. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.

0:34.1

A winter storm bearing heavy snow, strong winds, and bitter cold is descending upon the central US from the Dakotas to the Gulf, with its sights set on the East Coast in the coming

0:38.2

days. Utilities are racing for the worst, wary of a repeat of a deadly 2021 winter storm in Texas

0:44.5

that left millions without power for days. Energy producers in some of America's largest oil and

0:50.2

gas fields could also see disruptions, with traders anticipating that a large share of

0:55.0

U.S. production could become blocked in frozen wells precisely when heating demand is at its peak.

1:01.3

Those concerns and increasing demand for heating have pushed U.S. natural gas prices up more

1:06.7

than 60 percent this week.

1:09.1

While gold prices are also soaring nearing $5,000 an ounce, just three months

1:14.6

after crossing the once-unthinkable $4,000 mark. The metal has surged amid geopolitical uncertainty

1:20.9

and sky-high stock prices, as well as central banks, piling in as fellow buyers pushing

1:26.4

up prices. And good news for roughly two in three

1:30.2

Americans, TikTok officially isn't going anywhere. The company has formerly inked a joint venture,

1:37.1

allowing it to keep operating in the U.S., ending a years-long fight over whether to ban the

1:42.3

video-sharing app on national security grounds.

1:45.4

ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, has agreed to sell an 80% stake to a group of

1:50.8

U.S. approved investors, which include Tech Giant Oracle, Silver Lake, and Michael Dell's

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