<p><span>In January, crypto markets reversed their downward trend with Bitcoin and Ethereum rising 39.9% and 32.7% to $23,130 and $1,585, respectively. Market participants have begun to take on more risk as the macroeconomic environment improves with lower inflation and a slowdown of interest rate hikes.</span></p>
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well, saying that china is willing to engage with the u.s. to, quote: expand cooperation on the basis of mutual benefits. see where this takes us in 2019, charles. charles: all right. thank you very much. by the way, happy new year to you as well, my friend. of course, new year s right now in russia. where we are right now, look at that, fireworks display. we are seeing it all over the world. really wonderful. can t wait. it will be in our neck of the woods real soon. not a movement too soon for investors. 2018, let s face it had a lot of investors seeing red. so what will the new year bring? let s ask our market pros, trader tim anderson is at the new york stock exchange along with market walchers. you know, i m not sure for what it s worth the very last minute of trading saw the market rally 165 points the dow. you know, the last several sessions i have got to tell you, monica, have been somewhat encouraging despite the fact that it s been a disastrous end of the year.
customers. i m angry in the sense that anything take that stains berkshire, but i think in the end we ll get off the reservation. we ll hear from warren buffett about his wayward deal maker david sokol. a volatile day of trading saw oil futures fall back from 2 1/2 year highs, but investors were caught in a dilemma unsure whether the killing of america s most wanted would usher in new stability or herald a fresh wave of turbulence. mixed picture here in europe. first day back in business after the honk weekend as far as the footsie is concerned. that is up by a quarter of a percent tracking gains perhaps we saw on the dax and other indices over friday and monday