Highlights
- Small caps have been an anchor around the neck of this struggling bull market since the banking crisis of March 2023.
- Since then, a series of fits and starts have only expanded the range the Russell 2000 has been in since the late 2021 peak.
- While the Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) faded from today's early morning post-CPI peak, it still finished with an admirable gain of +1.57%.
- If the IWM can stage further gains into the end of the week. . .
