By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Global equity markets wavered on Tuesday as a new month saw investors weigh strong earnings from big-name U.S. companies against mixed economic data and inflation worries. While U.S. job openings increased to near record highs in December, a measure of U.S. manufacturing activity fell to a 14-month low in January amid an outbreak of COVID-19 infections, supporting views that economic growth lost steam at the start of the year. A pan-European equity index rose 1.28% while Japan’s blue-chip Nikkei rose 0.28%, with MSCI’s world stock index up 0.85% after h…