Headlines discussed at LNWM’s Monday Morning Briefing. Week of Dec. 30, 2013 – Jan. 5, 2014:

• S&P 500 Stock Index had its best year since 1997; up 32.4% in 2013.
• Gold futures were down 28% in 2013; largest annual drop in 30 years.
• U.S. population grew only 0.7% in 2013, slowest pace since Great Depression.
• Italy’s Fiat will buy rest of Chrysler shares, which U.S. government sold at a loss in 2011.
• China’s industrial output grew 9.7% in 2013, per the Chinese government.

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