...particularly encouraged by the resurgence in smaller stocks, which suggested a broad recovery beyond larger companies. The Russell 2000 index of small companies has gained 14 percent this year.In the market for U.S government bonds, the yield on the...
...biggest gain since December 2011. It's now just 5 percent below its record high close reached in October 2007. The Russell 2000, an index that tracks smaller companies, shot up to the highest close in its history.The reverie multiplied across...
...Nasdaq dropped 41.14, or 1.5 percent, to 2,643.73.The Nasdaq is now down slightly for the year, as is the Russell 2000 index of small company stocks. The Dow is still up 3.2 percent for 2011 and the S&P 1.1 percent.Some investors...
...68 points, or 4.3 percent, to 2,446.06. The Russell 2000 index of smaller U.S. companies gained even more...7 percent. The other three indexes fell more. The Russell 2000 lost the most, 5.9 percent.As of Monday the Standard...
...that is booming: small caps. The Russell 2000 index, which tracks stocks of...250 million and $1 billion. The Russell 2000 includes businesses that the index...In the last three years, the Russell 2000 has risen 18.2 percent, compared...
...chalked up another win in 2006. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies posted...resurgent Russell 1000 beat the Russell 2000 in the second half of the year...performances, though none topped the Russell 2000. Many who argued that large caps...
...Rick Genoni, Vanguard ETF product manager. The most popular ETFs track broad-based indexes such as the S&P 500, Russell 2000 index of smaller companies or the Dow Jones Industrial Average. But analysts say ETFs can also be an effective way...
...Poor's 500 index was up 21.54 at 1,486.00, and the Nasdaq composite index was up 129.27 at 3,989.83. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 9.06, to 522.79. Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 5-to-4 margin...
...Poor's 500 index to 19-month highs this week. As those indexes rise, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite and the Russell 2000 index, which focuses on small-cap stocks, have turned sluggish. Small stocks are those with market capitalizations...
...issues outnumbered advancers by a wide margin, and the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies sank into negative territory...falling 5.42, to 433.16. Just three months ago, the Russell 2000 was boasting a 12 percent gain for the year, closing...
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