Russell 2000

When investors want to know how small American companies are doing, they look at the Russell 2000. It holds the smallest 2,000 names in the Russell 3000, which covers almost the entire US equity market, so it works as the country's standard gauge of small-cap performance. The Frank Russell Company launched it in 1984, and FTSE Russell, now part of the London Stock Exchange Group, maintains it today. Because its members are small and mostly domestic, the index behaves differently from large-cap benchmarks: it is more sensitive to the US economy, interest rates and credit conditions, and it reconstitutes once a year in a closely watched June rebalance. Traders read it as a risk-appetite signal, since money tends to rotate into small caps when confidence is high.

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