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I know, I know, no one likes the bearer of bad news — especially when it comes to stock prices - but someone needs to remind you what usually happens to stocks when the Fed raises rates so it might as well be me. They drop. Let me explain.

It has been a great year for global equities with the average country up 12.45%. Of the 74 countries, 61 are in the green while just 13 are in the red.

After the stock market's stellar returns in 2019, it's only natural that investors would fear a sub-par performance for stocks in 2019 but, as I'll argue in this report, stocks can - and most likely will - post another winning year in 2020 as long as....

...In the following article, we present a decade-by-decade review of U.S. stock and bond returns over the past 9 decades...

Gold is up more than 13% so far this year and...the outlook seems bright heading into the New Year. This article highlights 6 popular gold ETFs that could be excellent plays for investors who believe that bullion will continue to move higher in 2020.

The chart below compares the S&P 500’s annualized returns over the last one, two, five, ten, and twenty years to the average annualized returns of the index for each time period since 1928.

It was mentioned that Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED;NYSE:CGC) and had a very bullish chart patterns and would likely breakout in January and CGC broke out today

The S&P 500 index is trading at record high levels and optimism remains high with Barron's professional money manager survey indicating a record 74% money managers being bullish on markets even at current levels. [When one] measures valuations with respect to expected growth, [however, the ensuing ratio, the PEG ratio,] suggests overvaluation at these levels. [Let me explain further.] Words: 254; Charts: 1

It would seem we could be entering a rocky market stretch given China's collapsing stock market, the Greek and Puerto Rican debt crises, etc. Today's infographic compares how 14 different asset classes have performed during the last five crises.

By definition, rare events should seldom occur and applying that understanding to financial markets assumes that all market events follow a normal distribution or, in layman's terms, a bell-shaped curve. More specifically, the statistics say that 99.7% of all daily movements should fall within three standard deviations of the mean, no more. Well, guess what? New research suggests that they clearly don't follow such a pattern - that "unlikely" doesn't mean "never". [Let me expand on that.] Words: 1079; Charts: 1