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BlockBeats News, January 9 — Institutional analysis indicates that, due to companies remaining cautious in hiring as a result of increased import tariffs and investments in artificial intelligence, U.S. employment growth in December may slow down. However, the unemployment rate is expected to drop to 4.5%, which may support market expectations that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged this month. The non-farm payroll report to be released tonight is expected to show that the U.S. labor market remains in what economists and policymakers call a "no hiring, no firing" mode. This will also confirm that the U.S. economy is currently in a phase of jobless expansion. In the third quarter of last year, economic growth and worker productivity surged significantly, partly attributed to the surge in AI spending. Sal Guatieri, Senior Economist at BMO Capital Markets, stated: "This is not entirely due to weak demand, as the economy does not appear to be performing poorly, but companies are extremely cautious about hiring new employees. This may be related to a willingness to control costs, possibly due to tariff pressures, or perhaps because many companies believe that AI-driven automation will lead to productivity gains." (Golden Ten Data)

BlockBeats News, January 9th, an institutional analysis pointed out that the growth of US December employment may slow down due to corporate caution in hiring amid import tariffs and increased investment in artificial intelligence. However, the unemployment rate is expected to decrease to 4.5%, which may support the market's expectation that the Federal Reserve will maintain interest rates this month. It is expected that tonight's non-farm payroll report will show that the US labor market is still trapped in what economists and policymakers call a "no hiring, no firing" pattern. This will also confirm that the US economy is in a phase of no job expansion. In the third quarter of last year, economic growth and worker productivity surged, partly due to a sharp increase in artificial intelligence spending. Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said, "This is not entirely due to weak demand, as the economic performance does not seem poor, but companies are very cautious about hiring new employees. This may be related to a willingness to control costs, perhaps due to tariff pressure, or it may be because many companies believe that AI-driven automation will lead to productivity gains." (FXStreet)

Foresight News reported that Arbitrum has released the ArbOS Dia upgrade, which will introduce a new pricing model on Arbitrum One to smooth out gas fee fluctuations during peak periods and raise the minimum base fee from 0.01 gwei to 0.02 gwei to deter malicious attacks. On the user side, the Dia upgrade aligns with Ethereum standards and supports native mobile signing methods such as Passkey and facial recognition. For custom Arbitrum chains, this upgrade also simplifies the process of using USDC or USDT as native gas tokens. In addition, the upgrade lays the foundation for future improvements in network throughput by more precisely tracking the usage of computational and storage resources.