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How the Small Cap Index Holds Up When Giants Fall
The S&P 500 is down 1.3 percent over five days, the Nasdaq has dropped nearly 3 percent, but the small cap Russell 2000 is actually up a tenth of a percent. Lucas and Luna explore why small caps are suddenly acting as a sanctuary for investors fleeing mega-cap tech names. They examine the sequence of market leadership shifts since the pandemic, how the yield curve steepening to 31 basis points supports riskier assets, and what it means for portfolio strategy mid-2026. The conversation touches on why big indexes are no longer doing the heavy lifting as they did in the recovery years, and how…
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