10 Best US Stocks To Buy For 2016

10 Best US Stocks To Buy For 2016: iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund (IWM)

iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund (the Fund) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Russell 2000 Index (the Index). The Index measures the performances of the small capitalization sector of the United States equity market. The Index includes approximately 8% of the market capitalization of all publicly traded United States equity securities.

The Index is a subset of the Russell 3000 Index, and serves as the underlying index for the Russell 2000 Growth and Value Index series. The Index is a capitalization-weighted index of the approximately 2000 smallest companies in the Russell 3000 Index. The Fund uses a representative sampling strategy in seeking to track the Index. iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund's investment advisor is Barclays Global Fund Advisors.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Dan Caplinger]

  2. Go with a broader approach
  Because the January Effect theory says that small-cap stocks tend to outperform large-cap stocks early in the year, ETFs like the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSEMKT: IWM  ) are a natural choice for those who don't feel comfortable picking individual stocks in the small-cap space. The iShares ETF tracks the popular Russell 2000 index of small-cap stocks, owning more than 2,000 small-cap names and managing more than $30 billion in assets. It's among the most liquid small-cap-oriented ETFs available, and it comes with a modest expense ratio of just 0.2% annually. With names like ISIS Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ISIS  ) and Triquint Semiconductor (NASDAQ: TQNT  ) among its top holdings, the ETF has broad-based exposure to some of the top performers in the small-cap space.

• [By Avi Gilburt]

  For the last month and a half, I have been referencing two fractals, one in th! e Russell 2000 (IWM)  and one in the Nasdaq 100 (NQU4) , which have guided us up to this region. As I have noted, this fractal, should the market play out in a similar manner, would suggest that the market could drop with crash-like speed within the next week or two.

• [By Michael Ashbaugh]

  Meanwhile, the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM)  is retesting the 50-day moving average.

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