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The Nasdaq Composite, the S&P 500 and the Russell 2000 are either bleeding into bear-market territory or teetering on the edge.

The Russell 2000 (RTY) sank into a bear market Thursday, the first key gauge of U.S. stocks to drop at least 20% from its most-recent closing high, with the Trump administration’s plan for global ...

The revival in small caps expected from Donald Trump’s America First agenda instead turned into a rout for shares in companies whose fortunes are most closely tied to the US economy.Most Read from Blo ...

Small-cap stocks closed Thursday's session in a bear market. The Russell 2000 index fell 6.6% on Thursday, marking its biggest daily percentage decline since March 2020. The index comprises small ...

Investors want to know how small caps have tended to perform in periods after the Russell 2000 index closed in bear-market territory. History shows that, since 1987, small-cap stocks have ...

The Russell 2000 Index does not incorporate any screens ... It slid 20.4% during the 2022 bear market—more than 4 percentage points further than the category norm—but fared far better than ...

The stock-market selloff picked up steam on Friday, pushing the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite into bear-market territory amid fears that President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs have ignited a ...

The Russell 2000 (RTY) sank into a bear market Thursday, the first key gauge of U.S. stocks to drop at least 20% from its most-recent closing high, with the Trump administration’s plan for ...

Small-cap stocks, once seen as top beneficiaries of President Trump's policies, on Thursday officially entered bear-market territory. The benchmark Russell 2000 index RUT slumped nearly 22% from ...