If you're like most investors, this has been a lousy year for the stocks in your portfolio. Soaring interest rates and fear of a recession that those higher rates could lead to already pushed the benchmark S&P 500 index down 17.5% from its peak near the beginning of 2022. 

The sinking market indexes need to recover soon, or 2022 will go down in the books as the stock market's worst year since the global financial crisis began in 2008.

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