• Bitcoin price today: hits new high above $103k as Trump picks pro-crypto SEC Chair

• BlackRock sees ‘exceptionalism’ powering US stocks higher in 2025

• Crypto is getting the SEC boss it wanted in Paul Atkins

Atkins is against unnecessary oversight.

• Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: DOGE has a real shot at cutting costs, and new technologies could help

• Nvidia to build AI research, data centres in Vietnam with govt

• Hedge Funds Make MicroStrategy Wall Street’s Hottest Trade

• Elon Musk is getting some (tentative) bipartisan interest as he heads to Capitol Hill

Some Democrats concur with Musk’s notion of DOGE.

• US weekly jobless claims rose more than expected

Rose from 215k to 225k for the week ending Nov 30.

• OPEC+ to delay supply increase by three months, Bloomberg reports

It is the third postponement amid depressed oil price levels.