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...The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite and the small cap-focused Russell 2000 had their first runs of five consecutive session losses since January, falling 0.5 per cent and 0.2 per cent, respectively....
...More than 90 per cent of S&P 500 stocks closed higher on Wednesday, as a broad rally in late trading lifted the benchmark index to its first record high in almost a week....
...More than 90 per cent of S&P 500 stocks closed higher, as a broad rally in late trading lifted the benchmark index to its first record high in almost a week....
...The small-cap focused Russell 2000 fell 1.8 per cent. The price of gold hit a record high for the third session in a row, climbing 1.2 per cent to $2,277 per troy ounce....
...In contrast, the S&P 500’s price-to-book ratio is close to the record 5 times it touched in 2021 and 2000 (the Nasdaq’s P/B ratio is close to 7.5 times)....
...small-cap Russell 2000....
...The benchmark S&P 500 rose 0.9 per cent. All sectors gained, led by strength in finance and tech groups. More than 80 per cent of stocks on the share gauge advanced....
...Even smaller stocks are finally catching up a little, with the Russell Midcap index (+4.3 per cent) and the Russell 2000 (+3.6 per cent) leading the Russell 1000 (+3.2 per cent) in March, notes Bank of America...
...Only half of stocks in the S&P 500 have risen this year, and less than a third have outperformed the index....
...With the index having become highly correlated with the tech sector — and picking up steam like we saw in the run-up to the early 2000s tech bust — the bears are out in full force warning of a major bubble...
...In 1995, information technology had a weighting of around 8.5 per cent of the S&P and rose to more than 29 per cent in 2000 just before the dotcom bubble burst....
...Fed chair Jay Powell last week left rates unchanged and signalled a preference to cut by three-quarters of a percentage point this year, pushing the Russell 2000 up by a percentage point more than the S&...
...We looked at MSCI US dollar country total return indices going back only to 2000....
...Canada’s main stock index, the S&P/TSX Composite, has advanced 31 per cent in the last five years, compared to a 74 per cent gain for the S&P 500....
...While some overwrite on the S&P 500® index, others overwrite on the Russell 2000 or Nasdaq 100 indices, or even single stocks and sectors (not surprisingly, mega-cap Tech buy-write funds have been particularly...
...About 133 IPOs a year have come to US exchanges post the Covid-19 pandemic, compared with 475 a year between 1995 and 2000. So, it’s unlikely there’s a bubble ready to go pop....
...Looking at a 20-year chart of the price/earnings valuations of the S&P 500 and its small cap sibling the S&P 600, it seems possible that this is what has happened to small stocks: Small caps (dark blue...
...The benchmark S&P 500 finished 0.03 per cent lower, while the Nasdaq Composite advanced by a similar magnitude. The small-cap focused Russell 2000 had a better day and added 0.5 per cent....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200, Mexico’s S&P/BMV IPC and Brazil’s Bovespa are a little way off peaks set over the past three months....
...Stocks have moved lower as a number of economic data releases in recent weeks have shown the US economy is stronger than expected, and inflation is sticky....
...One effect is that indices based on a specific number of stocks — such as the S&P 500 or the Russell 2000 — now cover much larger segments of the market than they used to, potentially skewing risks and returns...
...US stocks climbed, with a broad rally in equities helping keep the market on course to end a multisession losing streak....
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