With the stock market well on its way to its worst year since the financial crisis, mom-and-pop investors appear to be losing interest.
Judging by online search trends, the curiosity over stock prices has returned back to its pre-pandemic levels, in February 2020 when the market was near the end of its longest bull run ever. Market-related searches peaked in mid-March 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic and associated economic shutdowns sent investors into panic selling. It stayed comparatively high through the end of 2021.
