Watching weakness in the Russell 2000
For quite some time,
first in the MSN Strategy Lab competition, and more recently here in my Trading
Markets blog, I have been writing about the Russell 2000 small cap
index. Given the fact that the economically and interest rate sensitive Russell
has lead the way higher for quite some time, it’s always one of the first major
indexes that I check when trying to gauge the overall health (and trend) of the
market. While it is certainly a widely followed index, it tends to fly a bit
under the radar at times, particularly among the retail crowd, and this appears
to be one of them.
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