Deaths Are Up Post-Covid, and So Are Funeral Stocks: Prognosis

Flowers next to the UK’s Covid memorial wall in London pay tribute to people who died of the illness. 

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Hi, it’s Jason in Melbourne. Is the Covid-19 pandemic behind us? An upswing in the gloomy business of funerals suggests not. Before I get into that...

Aussies, Americans, and Brits — and no doubt people in many other nations — are dying faster than before the pandemic.