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While still higher versus yesterday’s close, US futures have given up some of those gains as the continued decline in long-term treasury yields picks up the pace. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury currently trades below 1.31% which is now lower than at any other point since 2/19. Lower interest rates are good for equity prices, but when the pace of the downside move picks up steam, equity investors take pause.
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With the Russell 2000 down more than 1% over each of the last two trading days, small caps have really been lagging their large-cap peers. That underperformance continues a trend we have seen over the last several weeks where the S&P 500 has been increasingly outperforming the Russell 2000 on a daily basis. Over the last 50 trading days, the S&P 500 has outperformed the Russell 2000 56% of the time. That matches a number of other periods as the highest frequency of outperformance over a 50-trading day period since late March 2020. What makes the current period different, though, is that if the S&P 500 outperforms the Russell 2000 on any of the next three trading days, the current period will move into the lead as the highest consistency of large-cap outperformance since the end of March 2020. Just as large-cap tech was in the penalty box from early March through the end of Q1, now it appears as though small caps have found themselves in their own timeout.
