Mark Gilbert & Marcus Ashworth, Columnists

$11,769,509,000,000 Reasons to Cheer 2020

Outsized gains in almost every asset class this year are unlikely to be repeated in 2020, but big losses seem equally unlikely.

No one wants to be a party pooper.

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Traders and investors are tiptoeing nervously into 2020, after a stellar 2019 in which returns from almost every asset class outpaced their averages for the previous decade. The following charts illustrate why trading with cautious optimism might be the way to approach the coming year.

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