stocks will rise 5 to 8 percent.Sure, we have problems, but the rest of the developed world has bigger issues and capital will continue to flow to, as one of my sources calls it, “the least dirty shirt in the laundry.” It won’t be a boom year for stocks, but continued solid earnings and expectations for a change in the White House should push equities higher. (Last year, I predicted the Dow Industrials would rise 8 to 10 percent and it's still possible.) — Brian Sullivan

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