The S&P 500 hasn't performed this badly in the first six months of a year since 1970, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Since the beginning of 2022, the index has dropped nearly 20 percent.
And things could still get worse. "The question is when we hit a market bottom and when we get that turning point, and it's not necessarily straight away," Eloise Goulder of JPMorgan Chase told the Journal.
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