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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.

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-cap ...

Small-cap stocks, once seen as top beneficiaries of President Donald Trump’s policies, have now officially entered ...

With a pair of U.S. stock indexes already in a bear market, investors should be on alert for more potential pain to come in ...

The Russell 2000 measure of small-cap stocks fell into a bear market after Trump outlined U.S. reciprocal tariffs. Read more ...

Stocks have approached bear market levels as President Donald Trump's new tariffs have sparked concerns of a recession.

It was designed to track the performance of the roughly 2,000 stocks in the broader Russell 3000 Index with market capitalizations that range from about $300 million to about $2 billion.

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 ...