"Politics will pose the biggest risk to financial markets in December, as the U. S.-Chinese relations could have a crucial effect on risk assets, the impeachment process will also enter its next phase, and the British elections could also cause turmoil in the usually quiet month. The strong rally of the past two months could mean that a choppier period is ahead for stocks, and even an orderly pullback may be in the cards despite the positive seasonality statistics of December. The OPEC meeting, which is scheduled for the first week of the month will likely be a tumultuous one, as Saudi Arabia is trying to pressure the cartel to increase the support of the price of oil ahead of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of the state owned giant, Aramco."