Citi downgrades U.S. stocks, predicting that global equities will be flat in 2021 except in these key markets

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Need to Know: Citigroup sees stocks trading flat in 2021 — with these exceptions

Financial markets have shrugged off the violence and chaos on Capitol Hill, with both the Dow DJIA, +1.44% and S&P 500 SPX, +0.57% hitting new highs on Wednesday and the Nikkei 225 notching another 30-year record on Thursday.

Lowering the temperature on their long-held bias toward growth stocks, which has historically kept their rating on the U.S. market overweight, is part of the rationale behind downgrading the U.S. market to neutral. The best returns are expected in the U.K., where Citi forecasts 7% growth for the FTSE 100 UKX, -0.57%, and Australia, where they expect the S&P/ASX 200 XJO, +1.59% to rise 6%. Emerging markets, notably China, Korea, and Russia, are singled out by the strategists for growth.

The Citi strategists said that much of their forecast on recovery may already be priced into the market, because the MSCI All Countries World Index is trading at 20 times consensus earnings per share — far higher than the long-term median of 15 times. By that measure, the U.S. is the most expensive of the major markets, and the U.K. the cheapest.

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To be frank, the stock would just work fine whoever in the position. It has been growing well untill Wuhan Virus happened and it would do well as soon as the Wuhan virus lessen

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