If the past 12 months have been a time of uncertainty, investors can be sure of a few things that will definitely take place in the year ahead — probably.
The UK will finally leave the EU by the end of January, barring an unforeseen world-changing event. Equally, in November, the US will stage its presidential elections, in which Mr Trump will be hoping to secure a second term, impeachment proceedings allowing.
Much of the rest remains conjecture: that the economies of the eurozone will further struggle; that interest rates in many developed countries will begin to rise; that Washington and Beijing will sustain a peace that broke out in the final days of December in the tense battle over trade tariffs that dominated geopolitics