Wild Week of Trading Leaves Pockmarks Across US Equity Landscape

That bet soured in the past week, partly because investors left few corners of the market unscathed. The main problem, though, came from a trio of labor-market data points that showed worrisome weakness in the American economy. Small caps get a disproportionately high percentage of sales at home.The year started with investors rotating from tech, where valuations had become stretched, into companies that benefit from an upswing in economic growth and falling interest rates. Chief among their targets: small ...