US small-cap stocks continued their winning streak in January, riding the early “blue wave” optimism triggered by the new Biden administration’s aggressive fiscal stimulus proposals, and the burst of online retail buying in a handful of small-cap stocks.
The Russell 2000 topped the list of global equity returns, climbing 5.0% for the month and vaulting ahead of the 0.9% decline for the Russell 1000 and the 0.9% gain of the FTSE All-World ex US.
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The past five years in US markets have been nothing if not eventful. They’ve featured every macro regime of the economic cycle, where markets weathered a global pandemic, quantitative tightening and easing, inflation, and both low and rising rate environments.
Just 50 years ago, Taiwan was a labour-intensive manufacturing hub for cheap exports such as textiles and toys. In the 1980s, it successfully transformed into a vibrant advanced electronics manufacturing hub that continues to play an important role in the global technology shift of the past decade. Crucially, Taiwan has developed into one of the world’s most critical semiconductor manufacturing centres, and the semiconductor industry has become an inseparable component of Taiwan’s economic growth.
In 1984, FTSE Russell (at the time Russell Indexes) introduced the Russell 3000® Index, the first of its kind to provide institutional investors with a comprehensive, accurate and objective representation of the world’s largest and most liquid (US) equity market.
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