People with stock investments in the little companies, the ones they hoped would somehow buck the trend, actually did do just that, perhaps because the little companies felt they had so little to lose, they could take risks.

They took their risks, and they came out on top. Not that your stocks in these companies really made you a profit; they took such a beating in the first half of the year, and they are just climbing back to where they left off.

There are funds out there that only take on large and growing companies; and these have performed really well. All the talk in the papers now is about how you could consider it pretty good if you invest in a large and growing company and have it climb about 20%. There are some out there that actually go twice as far. So apparently, the mantra for stock investments in 2010 is, go for the large company.

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