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One of the most surprising pieces of market data that I've come across.

I don't know that many people would believe this.

The Russell 2000 Small Cap Index, as of last Friday's close, is now outperforming the S&P 500.

How did that happen?

So this is again through Friday stocks are down on Monday but yet the Russell was up close

to 20% the S&P's up 17.

Remember the beginning of the year when all it was is five stocks carrying the day?

And now it's crazy.

And we're going to go through some of the top holdings

in the Russell 2000 with some

helps from YCharts and talk about how one of the biggest names has maybe the

greatest comeback of any stock this year. It's insane. So we're going to get into

that a little bit. Go through the top 15 or 20 holdings of the Russell 2000 using some white charts

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