Russell 2000

AI take

The Russell 2000 is more sensitive to higher long-term yields and an oil-driven inflation overlay than the megacap AI complex as crude bounced on Iran-strike headlines after the Fed hold. Small-caps still finished the week higher even as the Nasdaq sold off, a breadth overlay that still has to hold through next week's midterms. Watch remaining regional-bank comments and how that yield-and-breadth bid holds as energy-major prints are digested.

Scheduled take · 2026-10-31T04:10:04Z

• Associated Press -- How major US stock indexes fared Friday