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Investors were left spinning again this week as the stock market dropped into bear territory once more. global uncertainty, high inflation and rate hikes have marked a dizzying year for the market.

Now we’re wondering: What comes next?

With inflation still uncomfortably high and another aggressive rate hike expected from the Federal Reserve next month, the market is likely in for a bumpy ride.

“Investors should brace themselves for more market volatility,” said Mahesh Odhrani, certified financial planner and president of financial planning firm, Strategic Wealth Design.

The market’s short-term fate is contingent on multiple factors, so any predictions about what comes next are simply educated guesses. The Fed has raised interest rates five times this year in an effort to curb inflation. Now, a recession seems more likely than a “soft landing,” according to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. And though it’s impossible to say how deep that recession might be or how long it will last, such a downturn will definitely inflict more pain across the board, including an uptick in unemployment.

While experts indicate a light at the end of the tunnel, the market usually gets worse before it rebounds. Here’s what five experts said is likely to happen as 2022 comes to a draw and we brace for 2023.

Where experts predict the stock market is headed

Market uncertainty will persist.

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when the American Customer Satisfaction Index in June announced its numbers for the broadband industry, we noted that internet service providers landed at the very bottom of all industries surveyed. Well, the news isn’t much better with the release last week of a study from JD Power.

American consumers are less satisfied with their ISP than they were a year ago, the study found, based on responses from nearly 23,000 people from November 2021 to August 2022. The study breaks the country into four regions: East, North Central, South and West . Scores declined in three out of the four regions.

The survey scores providers on a 1,000-point scale and tracks customer satisfaction of residential service in five areas:

• Billing and payment
• Communications and promotions
• Cost of service
• customer care
• Performance and reliability

Verizon took the top spot in the East region with a score of 758 (the same score it garnered last year), while the region’s average score dipped from 714 to 707. Cable provider Midco ranked highest in the North Central area, with a 734 score (which dropped from last

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The journal nature published a special issues on racism in science this week. In it, Black and Indigenous scientists, doctors, and researchers share how they’ve experienced racism in their work. Many of them experienced discrimination as they entered their chosen fields, then faced backlash as they called out wrongdoing in those same places. It takes bravery to share this kind of pain so publicly. Their stories are raw and revelatory.

This special issue of nature came about as part of the journal’s own efforts to grapple with racism. After the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police in 2020, there was an upswell of voices calling out systemic racism in all areas of society, including in academia and science. Ahead of a “Strike for Black Lives” focused on STEM industries in June 2020, nature wrote in an editorial that it “recognize[s] that Nature is one of the white institutions that is responsible for bias in research and scholarship,” the journal said at the time. It is committed to creating a special issue of the journal “exploring systemic racism in research, research policy and publishing.”

nature‘s special issue this week includes five features from Black and Indigenous folks in science who have pushed for more inclusion and accountability in their fields of work — and have faced appalling racism in the process. Nadine Caron, Canada’s first Indigenous female general surgeon, describe her horrifying experience while applying for funding to advance genetic treatments for Indigenous children, when she was

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi landed on Disney Plus on Wednesday, giving us six CGI animated shorts in the style of The Clone Wars. Half of the stories are dedicated to the legendary Jedi Ahsoka Tano (years before her alliance with The Mandalorian), while the others focus on future Sith Lord Dooku during his time as a Jedi.

They’re written by Clone Wars executive producer Dave Filoni, who’s currently working on the live-action Ahsoka series that’s scheduled to hit Disney Plus next year.

These are all set in the prequel era, decades before the events of the original Star Wars movie A New Hope (and current live-action show Andor). Let’s use the Force to dive into each episode’s SPOILERS.

Life and Death

On her homeworld Shili, prior to the events of The Phantom Menace, an infant Ahsoka (Ashley Eckstein) is taken by a sabertooth creature and seems doomed. When she instinctively tames it with the Force and rides it back home, the village elder recognizes her power and declares her a Jedi.

We know from The Clone Wars that she’s brought into the Jedi Order by Master Plo Koon, and becomes Padawan to Anakin Skywalker.

Justice

Jedi Master Dooku (Corey Burton) comes close to killing a corrupt Republic senator after witnessing the suffering of his people. His Padawan Qui-Gon Jinn (Michael Richardsonson of live-action Qui-Gon actor Liam Neeson), manages to save the senator by