The New Year brings new opportunities and risks. Trade deals (or the lack thereof), Federal Reserve rate policy uncertainty, and inevitable drama associated with a Presidential election year may mean you face crosscurrents in 2020, especially given 2019's stellar returns.
To help you navigate these crosscurrents in the first quarter, it may help to focus on the seasonally strongest sectors, industries, and stocks over the past 10 years. Ultimately, there's no guarantee these stocks will repeat their winning ways, but to paraphrase Mark Twain, history often rhymes, suggesting these baskets and individual stocks are --