Here’s What Putting $10,000 in These Assets Would Have Returned in 2019
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- ‘It’s been sort of fun trading this,’ AxiTrader’s Innes said
Quilvest’s Bob Parker Reviews 2019 Markets
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In 2018, seemingly every asset class was a loser. In 2019 it’s been the reverse, with opportunities abounding -- and some of the biggest winners have come from unexpected corners of the market.
This year featured geopolitical flare-ups like escalation in the U.S.-China trade war and the U.K.’s Brexit drama, but markets were buoyed by factors like a dovish turn from central banks including the Federal Reserve. Add it all together and there was surprising market resilience despite periodic barrages of negative headlines.