Tag: russell 2000

Running a close second to the Dow Transports (DJT +36.3% YTD) and Healthcare, the S&P 500's best-performing sector year-to-date (XLV, +36.3%), Micro-cap stocks have been...

2013 has been the Year of the Trend for equities, perhaps nowhere better demonstrated than by the Russell 2000. With its tight parallel channel and...

Small cap stock out-performance brings excellent opportunities as a function of most mature bull markets; and often characterizes the fantastic – if abruptly concluded – end-run of major legs in those markets.

Since the November 2012 lows, relative strength in market capitalization has been dominated by a bottom-up regime in which the smallest companies have performed...

US stocks rise higher; and higher still.  Is it getting frothy out there yet? The small-cap benchmark Russell 2000 index is now up +31.9% to date....

Over the last couple of weeks the outsized trouncing that small cap benchmark Russell 2000 (RUT) continues to deliver versus its large cap peers...

Venezuela's Caracas General :+272.2%. Argentina's Merval: +72.5%. Japan's Nikkei 225: +31%  Pakistan's KSE100: +29.3%. Among Ex-US global equities, some unusual suspects have (wait...Pakistan?) posted blistering...

For the past week it has proven impossible for all but the most assiduous reader of market-related content to avoid prognostication about how much...

By all accounts, the season of stock market summer doldrums is nearing its peak as the languorous volume and lackadaisical trading characteristic of holiday...

Market-leading small-cap benchmark Russell 2000 (RUT) just closed out the last full trading week of July +23.7% YTD, currently outpacing...just about every major asset class...