How much should your portfolio hold in bonds (which are safer yet get killed if inflation kicks up) and in stocks (which are riskier but offer the best chance of beating inflation and growing in value)?

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Do you feel safer yet?

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That means Brazil government bonds issued are becoming safer, yet still returning more in interest payments than US Treasurys.

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Our roads are safer, yet every day over 1, 500 whiplash claims are made.

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Yet, stocks are likely a safer bet than bonds right now.

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Yet working conditions in services are often pleasanter and safer than on an assembly line, and average wages in the fastest-growing sectors, such as finance, professional and business services, education and health, are higher than in manufacturing.

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Yet Phnom Penh itself is now relaxed, and probably safer than it has been anytime this year.

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Yet the truth is that children in general are better off and safer in the western industrialised world nowadays than they have ever been.

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Yet, by avoiding the no-go areas, the Americans have not become any safer themselves.

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The Conservatives have made the wrong choice yet again, choosing cronyism and jobs for the boys and girls over making our streets safer.

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Yet against all odds, Poland did survive: indeed it has never been richer, happier and safer.

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