Stocks for your stocking

By Scott Phillips
Updated December 19 2014 - 2:13pm, first published 1:38pm
"Great, Santa brought me some shares...": Stocks may not be exciting or pretty, but your kids will thank you in the decades to come if you buy well. Photo: Jessica Hromas
"Great, Santa brought me some shares...": Stocks may not be exciting or pretty, but your kids will thank you in the decades to come if you buy well. Photo: Jessica Hromas
"Great, Santa brought me some shares...": Stocks may not be exciting or pretty, but your kids will thank you in the decades to come if you buy well. Photo: Jessica Hromas
"Great, Santa brought me some shares...": Stocks may not be exciting or pretty, but your kids will thank you in the decades to come if you buy well. Photo: Jessica Hromas
"Great, Santa brought me some shares...": Stocks may not be exciting or pretty, but your kids will thank you in the decades to come if you buy well. Photo: Jessica Hromas
"Great, Santa brought me some shares...": Stocks may not be exciting or pretty, but your kids will thank you in the decades to come if you buy well. Photo: Jessica Hromas
"Great, Santa brought me some shares...": Stocks may not be exciting or pretty, but your kids will thank you in the decades to come if you buy well. Photo: Jessica Hromas
"Great, Santa brought me some shares...": Stocks may not be exciting or pretty, but your kids will thank you in the decades to come if you buy well. Photo: Jessica Hromas

If you listen closely, you can almost hear the sleigh being uncovered and given its yearly spruce-up, while Rudolph's nose is being polished. The elves are working double shifts and the toy factory has been running 24 hours a day for the last month.

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