While small-cap stocks may not match their 2009 gains, investing pros tell Bloomberg BusinessWeek where they see opportunity in this category

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  Advice for next year: Go global

  Senior Editor Suzanne Woolley, who edited the cover package, and Economics Editor Peter Coy discuss investing ideas with Assistant Managing Editor Jim Ellis. One big theme: going global

  Here's what might grab our attention in the next 12 months

  This year saw record cuts in payouts, but companies may be more generous to shareholders in 2010

  Bullish analyst comments on the aluminum giant and a delay on a new tax on health insurers lifted market sentiment Monday

  Ronald Redell's move marks the latest defection of a TCW exec to Gundlach's DoubleLine LLC asset-management startup

  Companies are paying record premiums on takeovers, a sign execs are growing more bullish about profits and stocks

  Plus Wall Street analyst opinions on Mattel and Walgreen

  Plus more stocks making headlines in Monday's market

  Indexes Friday received a boost from better-than-expected earnings at Oracle and Research in Motion

  Wall Street analysts give their buy, sell, or hold views on various stocks in the news this week

  The consultant says the high-speed trading favored by hedge funds and other firms will account for over half the U.S. market by next year, undeterred by planned regulation