2019 was a historic year for the financial markets.
Not only fears of an escalating US-China trade war caused worry, the division over Brexit in Britain also led to major unrest.
Despite all these events, the US stock market, and shortly behind it the European stock market, reached new records.
Thanks to this resilience, the year 2020 could continue successfully for investors.
However, 2020 also brought some challenges with the coronavirus crisis, so it took some research to see which stocks are likely the best this year.
Below we show you the top 5 stock market trends.

Gold and gold stocks

As early as 2019, gold was one of the stock market trends, as the yellow precious metal had last climbed that high in 2010.
The price per troy ounce rose by a whopping 20% this year, from $1,280 to $1,520.
There are many factors that drove the rise in the gold price, such as the Iran conflict or the trade war between the US and China.
According to the World Gold Council (WGC), gold holdings reached almost record levels; even central banks in China, Turkey, Russia and Kazakhstan stocked up considerably, so it is very likely that this stock market trend will keep climbing this year.

E-mobility, fuel cells & hydrogen

E-mobility, fuel cells and hydrogen are also among this year's stock market trends.
When it comes to electric cars in particular, the number of models sold doubled every year between 2011 and 2018.
Because of declining subsidies worldwide, the curve flattened somewhat in 2019, yet nothing can stop this progress, so this is one of the stock market trends that will continue to advance this year too.
The industry is firmly committed to making every tenth new car model an electric car by 2022, and it is not just electric cars: e-buses, e-motorcycles, e-scooters and e-bikes are also being continuously developed, so sales keep rising here as well.

Dividend stocks

Dividend stocks also remain on trend.
As long as interest rates on investments stay low, dividends will remain attractive.
In 2019 alone there was another incredible dividend record of 57 billion euros in Germany.
Here, companies listed in the German indices such as the DAX, MDAX, SDAX, TecDAX or small caps are among the best and stay on trend this year as well.

Big data & artificial intelligence

The digital revolution keeps getting bigger. Every year there are new, fascinating technologies as well as computers and software that get smarter and more intelligent.
More and more tasks are being taken over by systems, so of course annual sales keep rising steadily too.
The best-known big data stocks are probably Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Apple.

The biotech sector of the pharmaceutical industry

Our world population exceeds 9 billion people, who, happily, are getting older on average. But with longer lifespans, more and more illnesses creep in, such as cancer, Alzheimer's, cardiovascular disease and much more.
The industry therefore expects sharply rising numbers through 2050, and since more than two thirds of newly developed drugs come from large biotech companies such as Biogen, Gilead, Celgene or Amgen, it is definitely worth an investment.