The other reason small caps are attractive to investors is that they have a lot further to go in terms of revenue and profit growth than their larger counterparts. By the time a company reaches the large-cap ranks, ... For instance, iShares Russell ...

But a buy-and-hold investor might have been able to beat many, if not most managers simply by owning iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund (IWM), up about 17% on the year, a broad, simple and straightforward ETF. Investors have also done well using a twist ...

The alarming report came from the Producer Price Index (PPI), that shows the inflation level, which came in a massively surprising negative .7%.

In the past month, iShares Russell 2000 ETF, which tracks a diversified index of small-cap names, has gained nearly 7% heading into Friday.

April has seen some profit-taking emerging in small-caps, as the Russell 2000 is down 2.3% as of Tuesday's close and is currently trailing the blue chips and the S&P 500.

... might have more life. In the past month, the $21 billon iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM), an exchange-traded fund that tracks a diversified index of small-cap names, has gained nearly 7%, almost two percentage points better than the $142.9 billion ...

Even as the S&P 500's weekly gain overshadowed the MSCI all-country world equity index's rise of 0.3 percent, funds that hold stocks outside of the United States attracted more cash than funds that hold U.S.

Specialized ETFs tracking "low-volatility" indices have been a big hit with investors who want to dip a toe back into the stock market but remain suspicious after getting burned by the dot-com crash and 2008 financial crisis.

The Russell 2000 Index and the NASDAQ were the two best-performing major indices yesterday, while the Dow lagged. Among sectors, we saw a lot of basic materials-related ... I say might be, because there are still many global and domestic economic ...

Tech ETFs Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK), iShares Dow Jones US Technology ETF (IYW), iShares S&P North American Technology ETF (IGM) and iShares S&P North American Technology-Software Index (IGV) were all showing modest gains. Semiconductor ...