Small Company Shares Fall Behind In Sign Of Economic Worry

Ted

FYI: While the most-closely watched U.S. stock market gauges have hit new records this year, shares in smaller U.S. companies have taken a beating. Investors are beginning to wonder if that is a taste of what is to come with the wider market.

The Russell 2000 index, a gauge that tracks companies with smaller stock-market capitalizations, has lost 9% over the past year, while the S&P 500 index tracking the biggest American corporations has rallied about 6% on hopes of rate cuts from the U.S. Federal Reserve. A measure of the relative fortunes of small versus big company shares shows the level of the small-cap benchmark earlier this month at about 51.8% of the level of the bigger gauge, or the lowest level since March 2009. That figure stood above 60% around a year ago.
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Ted
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