US equities look safer than European but inflation worries are rising

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The US economy is on course to do better than Europe post-lockdown, thereby supporting US equities but raising inflation worries, according to economists.

It comes as Covid-19 vaccination programmes are rolled out across the world in the hope it will put an end to lockdown as infection rates fall. In Barnett Waddingham's virtual 2021 Investment Co...

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