There's no way to describe the first-half of 2022 for the investing community as anything other than "ugly." The benchmark S&P 500 turned in its worst first-half to a year since 1970, officially pushing the widely followed index into a bear market.

Things were even worse for the growth stock-driven Nasdaq Composite and Nasdaq 100. The latter is an index comprised of the 100 largest nonfinancial companies listed on the Nasdaq exchange. Both the Nasdaq Composite and Nasdaq 100 have lost nearly a third of their value.

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