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Russell 2000 (IWM) beats S&P 500 by 8 points YTD as AI mega-cap rotation lifts cheap small-cap stocks.
Sep 21
The benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate surged to 7.45%, its steepest level since early 2024, as rising Treasury yields and a hawkish Federal Reserve posture signal renewed financial tightening…
Quality rotation sends the dow industrials average up 0.37% as the Russell 2000 sinks 1.23%, marking the widest blue-chip-small-cap divergence of 2026 as stagflation fears accelerate capital…
The Russell 2000 closed at a fresh all-time high of 3,068.42 on Friday, extending its year-to-date lead over the S&P 500 to 9.1 percentage points as small cap stocks cement their role as 2026's…
The University of Michigan's preliminary August consumer survey plunged to 51.0, a 7.6% monthly drop that snapped two straight months of gains and landed well below Wall Street's 55.0 consensus.
Major index ETFs including SPY, QQQ, DIA and IWM hover within 0.15% of flat as traders brace for Wednesday's July CPI print and a stalled US-Iran deal.
A surprise July payrolls loss flipped the market's calculus Friday: bad news became good news for large caps as Fed rate-hike odds evaporated, while small caps diverged sharply.
The US economy shed 23,000 jobs in July, shattering expectations of an 83,000-job gain in the worst non-farm payrolls miss in years, as the participation rate slipped to a five-year low of 61.4%.
Small cap stocks staged the sharpest recovery Monday after bearing the brunt of Friday's bond market selloff, with the Russell 2000 outpacing every major U.S. index as the 10-year Treasury yield…
The Russell 2000 dropped to 2,903, leading major indexes lower as elevated long-end Treasury rates revived floating-rate debt fears and squeezed small cap stocks across the board.
In a year defined by the dominance of artificial intelligence equities, gold and bitcoin have emerged as two of the steepest underperformers among major asset classes, each surrendering…
US equity markets have posted an average 18.2% gain in the twelve months following every midterm election since 1954, making the political cycle one of the most durable return patterns in modern…
Gold has retreated more than 28% from its January peak as fading Middle East tensions and a broadening equity rotation drain safe-haven demand, pushing the metal into a narrow trading range.
The Russell 2000's best first half since 1991 is being led by niche semiconductor stocks surging over 400%, as AI infrastructure spending ripples far beyond mega-cap technology into small cap…
The US labor market posted a sharper-than-expected cooling in June 2026, with employers adding just 57,000 jobs — roughly half the consensus forecast — as tariff pressures and reduced labor force…
Investors are pulling capital from mega-cap technology stocks and redeploying it into the Russell 2000, which has surged 22% year-to-date in what ranks as its strongest annual performance since 2003.
Weekly unemployment data for early July confirm US labor resilience as initial claims drop to a six-week low, defying analyst expectations of a modest rise.
SpaceX's record $75 billion IPO and its $25 billion bond sale have created an unprecedented concentration risk — equity and fixed-income investors are now exposed to the same single set of…
The Russell 2000 has outpaced both the S&P 500 and equal-weight index by a wide margin in 2026, driven by rate relief, domestic revenues, and tax tailwinds.
Truist's Keith Lerner maintains a constructive market outlook for 2026, citing record forward earnings estimates, a resilient nine-week S&P 500 winning streak, and technology-led momentum as the…
A US-Iran interim deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz sends stock futures sharply higher and triggers the steepest oil price drop today in more than three months, reshaping global energy market news.
SpaceX's 4.3% public float and Nasdaq's fast-track rules are forcing passive investors into the market's most volatile trillion-dollar listed stock, SPCX.
The investment landscape has experienced a dramatic shift in the first month of 2026, with small-cap stocks posting extraordinary gains while the technology giants that dominated 2025 have…
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