Tumultuous 2020 Rewards Investors Who Stared Down Turmoil
- Year marked by fastest bear market followed by a big melt-up
- Standouts include clean energy, stay-at-home trades and crypto
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The bell has just tolled on one of the wildest years in Wall Street history, full of precipitous plunges, improbable rebounds and human tragedy.
The S&P 500 ended on an up beat, with a 1.4% gain in the holiday-shortened week. That pushed its 2020 gain to 16%, an ending that would have seemed far-fetched in the bear-market days of March.