To end 2009 I penned a piece titled, “2010: A Good Year for the Economy and a Mediocre Year for Stocks?” Essentially, looking towards 2010 my assumption was that the stock market had already priced in much of the economic improvement that is to come in 2010 and would not react as favorably to good economic news releases, a “buy the rumor sell the news” story if you will. The question is, if 2010 will not be an extremely impressive year for the stock market, will it represent a pause in the cyclical bull market that began at the March 2009 lows or a top?