As the Santa rally began on Wall Street, spurred by the Republican sweep of Congress, the dartboard shot to the top in our shares race.
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Traditionally, Wall Street rallies between Halloween and the new year, but it is something else for it to shrug off the end of quantitative easing – the United States Federal Reserve's life-support money printing – and hit a new record.
The best profit-reporting season in four years was one thing, but when you throw in the Republicans seizing control of Congress in the mid-term elections and an oil price on the skids, then the market jumps for joy.
However, credit to the dartboard for picking the best stock after week one of our new round. Each competitor has selected 10 stocks for a $100,000 portfolio.
Alexium, which has a chemical treatment for fire-proofing fabrics and a hush-hush contract with the US Department of Defense, revealed it would list in the US next year and had "increasing sales activity", jumping 12 per cent in a day. How did the dartboard know?
Anyway the market couldn't keep up with Wall Street, what with plunging oil, gold and iron ore prices. You can blame a rampaging US dollar in which they're valued and, in the case of iron ore, cutbacks in production by China's steel mills.
Naturally, the falling prices dragged resources stocks down, although the weaker dollar may come to the rescue. Cape Lambert Resources, the race's second best stock, bucked the trend because it is funding of a mine in return for four years' royalties.
The last round's winners, the Ben-ites are giving the dartboard a run for its money with a capital preservation strategy of not picking any duds.
Confirmation that the unemployment rate remains about 6.2 per cent left the market unmoved.
David Potts