Opening Bell: January 11, 2018

Wal-Mart announced it would raise its starting wage to $11 an hour, thanks to the newly passed tax reform. And South Korean regulators say they may ban trading in Bitcoin, sending the price of cryptocurrencies plunging. Plus the latest from CES, as Samsung teases its new Galaxy S9 phone, and China's Huawei comes under fire from U.S. regulators. And ICE agents raiding 7-Eleven stores around the country to crack down on illegal immigrants. That as the deadline for Congress to pass legislation protecting "Dreamers" from deportation looms large.

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