As the end of 2022 rapidly approaches, it's increasingly unlikely that the technology-heavy Nasdaq-100 index will pull itself out of bear market territory. It's nursing a 32% decline for the year, which would mark its worst annual performance since the global financial crisis in 2008.

There have been some early signs that the driving forces of the decline, like high inflation, are beginning to resolve. But it could be several months before they feed into the broader stock market, so what should investors do in the meantime?

Buying stocks that outperformed this year could be one path to market-beating returns, in both the short term and the long term. Here are two such stocks, and both are in the rapidly expanding semiconductor industry.

Continue reading

Source Fool.com