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market, where it'll face competition from other platforms, including Poshmark, Mercari, and ThredUp.

And that's it for What's News for this Friday morning.

Today's show was produced by Daniel Bach and Hattie Moyer.

Our supervising producer was Sandra Kilhoff.

And I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal.

We will be back tonight with a new show.

Otherwise, have a great weekend and thanks for listening.

Here is your Morning Brief for Friday, January 23rd.

I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal.

A winter storm bearing heavy snow, strong winds, and bitter cold is descending upon the central U.S.

from the Dakotas to the Gulf, with its sights set on the East Coast in the coming days.

Utilities are bracing for the worst, wary of a repeat of a deadly 2021 winter storm in Texas that left millions without power for days.

Energy producers in some of America's largest oil and gas fields could also see disruptions, with traders anticipating that a large share of U.S.

production could become blocked in frozen wells.

precisely when heating demand is at its peak.

Those concerns and increasing demand for heating have pushed U.S.

natural gas prices up more than 60 percent this week.

While gold prices are also soaring, nearing $5,000 an ounce just three months after crossing the once unthinkable $4,000 mark.

The metal has surged amid geopolitical uncertainty and sky-high stock prices, as well as central banks piling in as fellow buyers pushing up prices.

And good news for roughly two in three Americans, TikTok officially isn't going anywhere.