Thursday, October 17th, 2024Markets cooled off today, quickly dropping shortly after the opening bell this morning. In fact, the small-cap Russell 2000, which outshone the major indexes yesterday, fell into negative territory early and stayed there virtually all session. Among the four major indexes, it’s hard to get flatter than this: the Dow was up +162 points, +0.38% (to a fresh all-time closing high of 43,240), but the Russell was -0.31%. The S&P 500 came in -0.012% while the Nasdaq was up +0.035%.Econ ...