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The Russell 2000 index, made up of small-cap companies, is close to entering a bear market. Here's what that means.

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The market for index funds continues to grow, and aside from the sheer variety of choices now available to retail investors, one of the biggest benefits has been steadily decreasing fees.

The DJIA is a stock index that tracks the share prices of 30 of the largest U.S. companies. Like the S&P 500, the DJIA is often used to describe the overall performance of the stock market.

VFIAX and SWPPX are some of the best S&P 500 index funds on the market in terms of costs and minimums. S&P 500 index funds track the S&P 500 — a market index made up of about 500 U.S. companies.

As economic uncertainty has spawned a stock market sell-off, one of investors' favorite trades of the past two years is going through its own rerating of expectations.

Nearly half of the companies in the S&P 500 (^GSPC) are outperforming the index to start the year, a stark reversal from the last two years of narrow market leadership where investors struggled to ...

Just 20 days ago, the US stock market was sitting at all-time highs. The US economy appeared to be growing at a solid pace. And a recession was nowhere in sight.