The winners & losers of 2012

If people were investments, the past year’s champion would be a whiskey-drinking Venezuelan who sells pharmaceuticals to teenagers. And the biggest loser would be a coffee-drinking social-media addict from Spain. Well, that’s one interpretation of the year’s best and worst investments. Read on to learn why homebuilders and wheat farmers prospered in 2012, while coal miners and self-described ‘prudent bears’ did not. (Click on graphic)