Financial markets: Six highlights -- and absurdities -- of 2013

Small investors, Ben S. Bernanke, dot-com mania, gold, bitcoins, Jamie Dimon and more starred in the year's Wall Street dramas.Wall Street had plenty of reasons to think 2013 would go miserably for the stock market — what with a lackluster global economy, the U.S. government shutdown, Syria's civil war, the Obamacare fiasco and Miley Cyrus.