Stocks

CFRA recently published a report showing that if both January and February are up, we tend to see a very strong stock market for the next 10 months.

Market analysts often misinterpret the data they’re reading. That’s what seems to be happening in small-cap stocks, or stocks of smaller companies.

The ideas driving the Russell 2000 Index’s advance are similar to the ones driving larger-cap stocks — with one major exception.

During the dot-com boom, IPOs regularly shot to triple-digit gains in their first day of trading. Now most fall dismally flat. But millennials’ interest in Snap could break this IPO rut.

Dow 20,000 was something to be excited about. But at some point that excitement will temper … and the stock market’s expectations will temper as well.