Is This Really the Right Time to Invest in the Stock Market?

With the S&P 500 down more than 13% since the beginning of the year, investors have painfully relearned the lesson that stocks can go down as well as up. Especially when the market as a whole drops more than 3.5% in a single day,  the fear in the market is palpable.

Add the fact that rising interest rates can play havoc across multiple asset classes, and you get a set of conditions that could lead to a tough market for investing new money.

That raises a key question: Is this really the right time to invest in the stock market? Between investors' current fear and the structural impact of rising interest rates, it certainly seems on the surface that now would be a terrible time to invest.

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