7 Profitable Places to Hide Your Money as We Enter a Bear Market Source: Ruslan Ivantsov | Shutterstock.com Wall Street has officially entered a bear market. Macroeconomic headwinds continue to build, including rampant inflation, slowing economic growth and continued geopolitical turmoil. We now have further uncertainty surrounding the stock market following the most recent interest rate hike. As we enter a bear market, investors are searching for alternative investment paths for diversification. Growth names that were the darlings on Wall Street during the pandemic have not been immune to these challenges so far in the year. Even large-capitalization (cap) shares have come under pressure since January. Year-to-date (YTD), the SP 500 index has so far dropped over 22.9% year-to-date (YTD), while the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 has declined more than 30.7% during the same period. In the past century, we have had over 25 bear markets on the Street. Most have lasted an average of less than one year. While it may be tempting to sell stocks in the portfolio to minimize losses, panic selling in a bear market often leads to loss of potential profits and even investment capital.