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Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, December 9, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The S&P 500 has risen nearly 30% this year on the back of stocks like Apple and AMD. The following stocks are Wall Street analysts’ picks to lead the benchmark in 2020. CNBC identified these stocks by

Logo and mascot ‘Ali cattle’ at the headquarters of Alibaba Group in Hangzhou. Zhang Peng | LightRocket | Getty Images Technology and bank stocks in Asia dominated the top picks for analysts in 2019, as shares in the region made strong gains this year. Mainland Chinese stocks also rallied this year, with the Shanghai composite

Brendan McDermid | Reuters It has been a year for celebration on Wall Street, with the S&P 500 rising nearly 30%, but investors relying on seasonal trends probably found themselves frustrated as the market defied traditional patterns. January, February and June historically rank in the bottom half of any year for stock performance, according to

Workers install a Nike logo lamp outside the Wukesong Arena in Beijing, August 28, 2019. Tingshu Wang | Reuters It was a big year for stocks, but 2020 is poised to be even better for some companies, according to Wall Street analysts. Many well-known stocks — and some not so well known — have been

President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Dallas, October 17, 2019. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters As stocks close out 2019 with potentially the best gain in decades, strategists expect Wall Street’s bull market to continue in 2020 as long as it appears President Donald Trump will be re-elected. Analysts see the possibility of a

Apple CEO Tim Cook gestures after opening the newly renovated Apple Store at Fifth Avenue on September 20, 2019 in New York City. Kena Betancur | AFP | Getty Images Apple, one of the best-performing stocks this year, is also the name that analysts have been the most wrong about in their forecasts. The tech

Microsoft CEO Satya Narayana Nadella. Tobias Schwarz | AFP | Getty Images Growth in Microsoft’s cloud computing segment could fuel a big run for the software giant in 2020, according to Bank of America. Analysts at the bank named Microsoft one of its top software picks for 2020, raising the price target on the stock

Donald Trump Carlo Allegri | Reuters President Donald Trump’s stock market stacks up well against the majority of his presidential predecessors. The S&P 500 has returned more than 50% since Trump was elected, more than double the 23% average market return of presidents three years into their term, according to data from Bespoke Investment Group

The fantasy sports website DraftKings Scott Olson | Getty Images Daily fantasy sports company and bookmaker DraftKings is merging with a special purpose acquisition company, allowing it to become public while forgoing the typical IPO process. DraftKings is combining with SBTech, a betting and gaming company, and Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp., a SPAC with a

Ethan Brown, founder and chief executive officer of Beyond Meat Inc., center, rings the opening bell during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, U.S., on Thursday, May 2, 2019. Beyond Meat’s successful initial public offering at $25 a share, the top end of its increased range, shows appetite

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the unveiling of the new Tesla Model Y in Hawthorne, California on March 14, 2019. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images In the midst of a fourth-quarter surge that launched Tesla’s stock past CEO Elon Musk’s $420 per share takeout value, Morgan Stanley reiterated its $250 price target

Wall Street veteran Byron Wien won’t release his legendary 2020 market surprises until January, but he offered one that didn’t make the cut Tuesday on CNBC. “Watch gold in 2020,” the vice chairman of private wealth solutions at Blackstone said on “Squawk on the Street.” “It has a chance to be an interesting investment.” Wien,

Todd Combs, portfolio manager and investment officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., arrives for the morning session of the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Friday, July 12, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon / Bloomberg / Getty Images Geico, the auto insurer owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc, on Monday named

Morgan Stanley has flagged 29 Chinese stocks that are most likely to benefit from the completion of a phase one deal between the U.S. and China. Nearly half of them are from the information technology sector, which has been hit by the trade war as those companies have been on tariff lists. Eight are from

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings gives a keynote address, January 6, 2016 at the CES 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images As 2010 began, Netflix was a nascent challenger to the sprawling media industry, worth less than $8 a share. Fast forward ten years – and a

Casters are showered with sparks, or ‘skeeters,’ as molten steel is shaped into bars called ‘billets’ at the TAMCO steel mini mill on in Rancho Cucamonga, California. David McNew | Getty Images United States Steel headed for one of its worst days of the year on Friday after it cut its dividend to 1 cent,

Cruise ship anchored off the shore of Grand Cayman Island, Royal Caribbean cruise liner Mariner of the Sea MyLoupe | Universal Images Group | Getty Images (This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, .) There’s still time for investors to beef

dimid_86 | Getty Images Where some see a mark of regret, Soliton sees a market opportunity. As more and more tattoo-bearing millennials age into their 30s, dermatologists are experiencing an uptick in tattoo regret syndrome. However, tattoo removal treatment has remained largely the same for decades, an expensive and painful procedure that can lead to

Traders work on the floor at the closing bell of the Dow Industrial Average at the New York Stock Exchange. Bryan R. Smith | AFP | Getty Images (This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, click .) Many Wall Street analysts

Michael Farr Scott Mlyn | CNBC Farr, Miller & Washington is a “buy-to-hold” investment manager, which means we make each investment with the intent to hold the position for a period of 3-5 years. Nevertheless, in each of the past twelve Decembers I have selected and invested personally in ten of the stocks we follow