Liontrust's Dowey: The bull and bear cases for the stockmarket

'Demand collapsing because it must'

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When analysing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the stockmarket, by far the most significant bear case to worry about logically follows from the widely reported and influential recent Imperial College London study of the virus.

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