It was tough year for the US stock market in 2022 due to multiple reasons including early supply chain shortage, war, inflation, Fed’s increase of interest rate and the fear of recession.
One of the US market indices, S&P 500 had the worst year in the recent history S&P 500, had dropped 28% in 2022. What this means is that if you invested $1000 on 1st Jan 2022, the value of the investment is just about $790.
Here is a quick look at the returns of S&P 500 index since the beginning of the year until the end of june.
And the. top 15 best and worst performers, the companies in S&P 500 index.
