Published on 30 Jan 2023 on Bankrate via Yahoo Finance
What is the Russell 2000 Index?
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The Russell 2000 Index tracks the performance of roughly 2,000 of the smallest publicly traded companies in the U.S. The Russell 2000 is actually a subset of the Russell 3000 Index, which is much broader than the Russell 2000 and includes about 96 percent of the investable U.S. stock market.
The Russell 2000 is often looked at as a key economic indicator because of its focus on small companies that mostly do business in the U.S. It is often cited along with more popular stock-market indexes such as the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite.