The rising anxiety among investors has punished growth-driven stocks particularly hard - and even tech giants like Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), and Tesla (TSLA) all ended the month of September between 3% and 8% lower. The Nasdaq Composite ($NASX) is a heavyweight in the world of stock indexes, tracking the performance of over 3,000 companies spanning various sectors, with a heavy dose of technology, biotech, and communications, in particular. Well, there's a laundry list of culprits: rising bond yields, worries about inflation and interest rates, regulatory hurdles, geopolitical tensions, and some disappointing earnings reports.