NewsWatch: This strategist picked two blockbuster stocks in 2019 — here’s what he likes for 2020

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Our call of the day comes from Standard Life Investments’s head of global strategy, Andrew Milligan, who earlier in the year gave this column two winning technology stock picks for 2019. Here’s what he likes for the year ahead. See full story.

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