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Friday, December 5th, 2014
SEATTLE, WA — (Marketwired) — 12/05/14 — In 2014 year-to-date as of December 2, the Russell High Efficiency Factor Indexes have shown low volatility-oriented European large cap stocks leading their quality-, value- and momentum-oriented counterparts within the Russell Developed Europe Large Cap Index. However, in November the European large cap momentum factor index led all other European large cap factor indexes according to the Russell High Efficiency Factor Indexes.In 2014 YTD as of Decem
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Friday, December 5th, 2014
SEATTLE, WA — (Marketwired) — 12/05/14 — In 2014 year-to-date as of December 1, the Russell 1000® Defensive Index® shows investors gravitating toward higher quality, lower volatility, more stable U.S. large cap stocks.The Russell 1000® Defensive Index® has returned 13.6% and 5.2% for the year-to-date and the fourth quarter-to-date, respectively, as of December 1, outperforming the Russell 1000® Index, which returned 12.6% and 4.3% for the same time periods.The Russell 100
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Friday, November 21st, 2014
Russell Expert Sees Parallels for Japan With the U.S. Equity Market of 2012 and 2013
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Friday, November 21st, 2014
SEATTLE, WA — (Marketwired) — 11/21/14 — In 2014 year-to-date as of November 18, the Russell High Efficiency Factor Indexes show low volatility-oriented U.S. large cap stocks leading their value-, quality- and momentum-oriented counterparts within the Russell 1000® Index. However, since the Russell 1000 Index hit a six month low on October 15*, U.S. large cap the momentum factor index has led all other factor indexes.In 2014 YTD as of November 18, the Russell 1000® High Efficiency Lo
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
SEATTLE, WA — (Marketwired) — 11/18/14 — Defensive-oriented stocks outperformed their cyclical, dynamic-oriented counterparts quarter-to-date as of 11 November, globally, as reflected by the Russell Stability Indexes."The Russell Defensive and Dynamic indexes– quarter-to-date performance illustrates how higher quality, more stable stocks have tended to perform in a more volatile market environment," said . "In more challenging markets, investors can gain additional insight fr
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Friday, November 14th, 2014
SEATTLE, WA — (Marketwired) — 11/14/14 — In mid-October, U.S small-cap equity market volatility spiked, with the CBOE Russell 2000 Volatility Index(sm) (RVX) closing at 26.22 on October 16, the highest closing level for RVX year-to-date.Since October 16, small cap volatility as reflected by RVX has trended downward, closing at 17.74 on November 10. And while volatility has trended downward for U.S. small caps, performance for the asset class has been strong in this time period, with the U.S.
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
Russell Experts See Positive Market Catalysts in Emerging Markets
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Thursday, November 6th, 2014
SEATTLE, WA — (Marketwired) — 11/06/14 — In October, the Russell 2000® Index gained 6.6% and is now up 1.9% in 2014 year-to-date as of October 31. And U.S. small cap equity market implied volatility spiked again. The CBOE Russell 2000 Volatility Indexsm (RVXsm) went from 21.64 on October 1 to a 26.22 closing price on October 16 (highest daily RVX close since June 15, 2012), closing at 19.33 on October 31.Small cap volatility has historically been higher than large cap volatility. Yet thi
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Friday, October 31st, 2014
SEATTLE, WA — (Marketwired) — 10/31/14 — Since the U.S. emerged from recession five years ago, U.S. equities have led the extended bull run in global equities. October 29, 2014 marked the 5th anniversary of the U.S. emerging from recession, when U.S. Treasury U.S. GDP data showed an annual growth rate of 3.5% for the third quarter of 2009.In the five years ending October 28, 2014, the Russell 3000® Index returned nearly 150%, while broad global developed markets returned 104.8% (the Rus
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Friday, October 24th, 2014
SEATTLE, WA — (Marketwired) — 10/24/14 — U.S. small cap stocks, as reflected by the Russell 2000® Index, returned more than 4% in the eight trading days ended October 22 as compared to U.S. large cap stocks, as reflected by the Russell 1000® Index, which returned 1.4% in this time period. This narrowed a performance gap between the two indexes that had been widening in 2014.And while the Russell 2000 is still down (-4.8%) in 2014 year-to-date as of October 22 relative to a +5.6% retu
