Market strategists bullish about 2021 despite uncertainties Xinhua | Updated: 2021-01-03 10:00 Share [Photo/VCG] NEW YORK -- For equities, 2020 was an unprecedented year featuring a deadly pandemic, a brutal recession and wild market moves. Heading into 2021, market strategists saw upswing potential ahead on expectations for a vaccine-assisted defeat of COVID-19 as well as a broadening recovery, warning of possible volatility as uncertainties remain. Unusual 2020 "The words I most associate with the 2020 equities market are that it was a year of 'extreme extremes' in that COVID-19 hovered over the global economy and global markets in ways that affected every aspect of business and social activity," Quincy Krosby, chief market strategist at Prudential Financial, told Xinhua in a recent email interview, reflecting on the past year.