Growth stock pickers feel like 'a kid in a candy shop'

'It is time to go shopping'

Eve Maddock-Jones
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Rising inflation and interest rates have squashed growth stocks' valuations in 2022, making them the cheapest they have been for several years. Although returns are generally down for this side of the market, is now, ironically, the best time to be a growth stock picker?

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