Driving the u. S. Stock market as well as hopes for some kind of tax cut. Those hopes sparking up again as we have the house passing the budget which in turn leads to higher hopes for a tax plan getting through. All the major averages are up. The russell 2000 of small caps is outperforming again. It is coming back to outperforming, up 4 10 of 1 . This is a small domestic dust and index for small, domestic orient an index for small, domestic oriented companies. Here you have the s p 500 versus the russell since the election. The russell had a big outperform its initially and sort of went sideways for a while, had another leg up in september and has gone sideways and is taking up relative to the s p 500, the relative performance improving as we get this latest wave of tax hopes. There is a Deutsche Bank index of highly taxed companies and low taxed companies. Here is a ratio of the two and the red line goes back to the election. They bottomed out in august and september and now they are
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