Buy growth and value stocks to beat inflation woes, advises Chris Wood

Led by a sharp rise in commodity prices, especially crude oil, and supply-side issues, most economies across the globe have been battling rising inflation over the past few months

Investors should buy growth and value stocks in order to beat the rising inflation, advised Christopher Wood, global head of equity strategy at Jefferies in his latest note to investors, GREED & fear.

Typically, growth stocks are those companies where the rise in sales and earnings is expected to be at a faster clip than the market average over a period of time. Value investing, on the other hand, is an investment strategy that involves picking stocks that appear to be trading for less than their intrinsic or book value.

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