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Recent inflation trends have forced the Federal Reserve to pause anticipated rate cuts, making high interest rates and small stocks an important topic for investors again. The common belief is that small stocks underperform when interest rates are high or rising. That view is not baseless, outlines Faris Sleem, editor of The Bowser Report.
The momentum trade that powered the US stock market through the first half of 2026 is showing cracks, and Bloomberg US Equities Reporter Natalia Kniazhevich says the unwind is already underway. On the July 3 Bloomberg Daybreak segment, Kniazhevich explained that “Momentum is the best-performing factor. It is up by 28% year to date. We ... Top Bloomberg Reporter: Wall Street’s Biggest Winning Trade Is “Starting to Fade” After Jobs Report Shock
Kevin Warsh went to Sintra and said what bond traders have been waiting to hear all summer. Inflation looks like it has peaked. Oil is cooperating. The tail risk of a July or August rate shock, the one quietly haunting every duration-heavy portfolio in America, just got a lot less scary. That was the read ... Fed Chair Warsh Just Said the One Thing About Inflation Every Investor Wanted to Hear
JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) posted a fortress quarter as passive flows shovel capital into the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSEARCA:IWM). JPM printed record markets revenue while the Russell reconstitution funneled $334 billion of mechanical buying into 2,000 small-cap names. Stacking the bank’s pristine balance sheet against a basket of floating-rate borrowers shows where defensive power sits ... Passive Indexers Are Shuffling Billions Into the Russell 2000 Just in Time for a Brutal Fed Reality Che
The iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSEARCA:IWM) has given small-cap holders a year worth celebrating. IWM is trading at $296, up 20% year to date and 41% over the trailing 12 months, breaking the three-year range trade that defined the Russell 2000 from 2022 through most of 2025. With the Fed on an extended pause and ... Two Catalysts Could Trigger Massive IWM Gains Before Year-End, or Signal a Sharp Reversal
Core inflation rate came in at 2.9% year-over-year yesterday. This stopped interest rate hike expectations from being anchored, and the 10-year Treasury closed last week near 4.6%. That backdrop is still supposed to be poison for stocks. Yet the Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:AVUV) is up 20% year to date and 36% over ... Sticky Inflation’s Worst Nightmare: Why Small Value Stocks Are Secretly Printing Money
The Federal Reserve has not been generous with rate cuts lately, and the Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:VBR) has the kind of interest rate sensitivity that makes that hurt. Small-cap value names carry more floating-rate debt than the megacaps weighting the S&P 500, so every meeting the Fed delays, VBR holders are paying the carry ... Trump’s Rate Cuts Could Light a Fire Under This Vanguard ETF
The Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund ETF (NYSEARCA:VB) does not hold penny stocks. VB tracks the CRSP US Small Cap Index, where the median holding is a company worth several billion dollars. With Kevin Warsh reportedly the incoming Federal Reserve Chair, the rate-cut path that small caps have been pricing in for months gets a more ... The New Federal Reserve Chair Can Cause This Small-Cap Stock ETF to Surge
Interest rates, economic growth expectations, inflation trends, and credit conditions often determine which parts of the market lead and which fall behind. Dow Industrials trading near the very round 50,000 level is beginning to resemble a potential double top relative to the February peak. Bearish RSI divergence, marked by lower highs in April and May even as the Dow pushed upward, suggests upside momentum is fading.
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