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These Were the Russell 2000 Stocks That Dominated In Q3 2025
Yahoo Financeยท2025-10-01 16:52

The small cap-focused Russell 2000 index has spent years lagging behind the larger S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indexes, but in third-quarter 2025 it took a big leap back to parity with large caps. Thanks to interest-rate-cut bets and optimism across U.S. equities, the index clawed its way out of a hole created by President Trump's April reciprocal tariff tumult. Not only that, but in Q3 it notched its first all-time high since November 2021. And with more rate cuts potentially on the horizon, the index could ...