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Stock Market 3rd Quarter 2024 – A Sea Change in Leadership or Just a Pit Stop?

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Despite expectations for weak-to-negative returns in 2024 because of an anticipated recession that never happened, 2024 has been a very strong year for the market and its major benchmark ETFs.  The S&P 500 has been in a relentless uptrend since rebounding from the lows of the bear market of 2022.  The Nasdaq-100 has been even … Read more

Russell 2000 Rebalancing Post-Mortem

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The Russell US Indexes are designed to reflect the ever-changing US equity market, and the annual reconstitution process is critical to maintaining accurate representation. The Russell Indexes differ from other major US stock market indexes in a variety of ways.  Russell was also the first index family to use float-adjusted market capitalization, using only shares … Read more