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By Chuck Gibson
We closed out 2013 with a bifurcated market. US stocks were the only place to be while the balance of the choices vying for your investment dollar were either ignored or beaten like that spider you found in your clothes drawer. As you can see in the chart below (2013 asset class performance) stocks were the only investment that ended the year higher (red). Commodities (purple) squeaked out a small loss, US bonds (pink) were shunned losing double digits while gold (light blue) was crushed.
