December starts with big down day | Every investment worked in 2019 | Who won Cyber Monday?

Almost anywhere investors placed a bet in 2019 is paying off.

VIEW IN BROWSER | SUBSCRIBE MON, DEC 02, 2019 EVENING BRIEF AS OF MON, DEC 02, 2019 • 04:01 ET DJIA 27786.95 -0.94% -264.46 S&P 500 3114.20 -0.85% -26.78 NASDAQ 8567.99 -1.12% -97.48   Most Active DOW NAME LAST CHG %CHG MSFT 149.55 -1.83 -1.21% AAPL 264.16 -3.09 -1.16% INTC 57.66 -0.39 -0.67% S&P 500 NAME LAST CHG %CHG GE 11.16 -0.11 -0.98% BAC 33.43 +0.11 +0.33% AMD 38.73 -0.42 -1.07% NASDAQ NAME LAST CHG %CHG AMD 38.73 -0.42 -1.07% MSFT 149.55 -1.83 -1.21% AAPL 264.16 -3.09 -1.16% EDITOR'S NOTE Almost any place an investor plopped down money has yielded a return this year.   Stocks, bonds, oil, precious metals — just about every asset class is on track to close 2019 with a profit, writes CNBC's Yun  Li.   This comes despite myriad worries about a trade war, a slowing economy, interest rates and some things you may have already forgotten by now, like that pesky negative yield curve. Much of this largesse comes compliments of the Federal Reserve.   "We've gotten three rate cuts as we know and a dramatic rise in the size of their balance sheet in a very short period of time," said Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group.     All 11 S&P 500 sectors are showing gains with tech and telecom at the top of the heap.   Monday, however, was a down day for stocks after the release of some worse-than-expected manufacturing data.   We also saw a spike in the "fear gauge." The Cboe Volatility Index jumped above 14 from 12.6.   Still, stocks remain near their all-time highs, and holiday sales are off to a solid start.   It's always a little tipsy at the top.     Subscribe to CNBC PRO for exclusive insights and analysis, and live business day programming from around the world. Al Lewis | CNBC Markets Editor @tellittoal TOP NEWS  S&P 500 starts December with biggest drop in nearly 2 months A key manufacturing index shows the US remains in contraction territory In 2019, almost every investment worked Cyber Monday shoppers on track to hit a record $9.4 billion, Adobe says Target and Walmart top the list of Wall Street analysts' Black Friday winners Trump says Democrats 'not nice!' for holding impeachment hearings while he's overseas — but GOP did same to Clinton Supreme Court shows little appetite for expanding gun rights in arguments over repealed New York regulation Trump campaign revokes credentials for Bloomberg News reporters over decision not to investigate 2020 Dems McDonald's is testing a chicken sandwich Jack Dorsey's planned move to Africa divides Square and Twitter investors     TOP VIDEO Cramer: There won't be a repeat of the December 2018 stock market drop   CNBC PRO Morgan Stanley downgrades Roku, one of the hottest stocks of 2019: 'It's all priced in'   SPECIAL REPORTS Tesla has rallied 55% in the last 3 months—here's where two investing pros would buy in This is where the Dow would be this year without Apple and Microsoft   Unsubscribe Manage Newsletters Terms of Service Join the CNBC Panel Digital Products Feedback Privacy Policy   © 2019 CNBC LLC. All rights reserved. A property of NBCUniversal. 900 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes. Global Business and Financial News, Stock Quotes and Market Data and Analysis. Data also provided by THOMSON REUTERS