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  1. Small-caps on Hong Kong's main index have fallen 63% this year, vs 52% for mid-caps and 38% for large caps. See http://tinyurl.com/5obzvk
  2. A Morningstar analyst calls the small-cap Greenspring fund “probably the best fund nobody has ever heard of." http://tinyurl.com/6pcvud
  3. S&P's Small-Cap Regional Banks Index has been strong recently, partly in response to the U.S. bank rescue plan. http://tinyurl.com/6mpdh2
  4. The credit crisis is forcing many European firms valued at >$1.5B to end their publicly traded status. Bloomberg: http://tinyurl.com/4jvfks
  5. With a little more than a half-hour to go in today's session, decliners are leading advancers in the Russell 2000 by a 15 to 1 ratio
  6. Goldman Sachs cut its Q3 profit outlook on small and mid-sized brokers and investment banks. See http://tinyurl.com/4to8z2
  7. Decliners are outnumbering advancers on the Russell 2000 by a slight margin of 935 to 902. About 30 stocks are unchanged.
  8. Job hunting? The New York City Retirement systems is looking for managers for its $1B small-cap equity portfolio. http://tinyurl.com/4mf6k2
  9. For a small-cap natural resources play consider coal-heavy BlackRock Global Resources fund. Morningstar via NYT. http://tinyurl.com/4pn548
  10. Chartist Kevin Pendley: I like the area we bounced from, but the patterns were not convincing enough to suggest a retest won’t take place
  11. SmallCapInvestor analyst Benson George: "Late-day buying is always a postive sign, esp. when it's on higher-than-usual volume."
  12. Kelly Haughton, the brains behind the growth of Russell Indexes (including the Russell 2000), is retiring. See http://tinyurl.com/4uf8zq
  13. Small-cap trivia: Which restaurant franchiser traces its success to a batch of misdelivered chicken parts? See http://tinyurl.com/3n5yy4
  14. WSJ reporting today that we are in a secular bear market. We reported that we were in that type of market in July. http://tinyurl.com/52w8bb
  15. Jefferies' Art Hogan to CNBC: "Today will mark a market bottom."
  16. Bush: "FDIC increase in insurance should boost confidence."
  17. Pres. Bush: "U.S. govt is acting to resolve this crisis and restore stability to our markets."
  18. A half-hour into the session declining stocks were leading advancing issues 1,627 to 193 among those companies that make up the Russell.
  19. Momentum readings on daily charts are now at the lowest point in more than a year.
  20. Of the nearly 2,000 companies in the Russell 2000, only 82 were showing gains at the close, for an incredible loser/gainer ratio of 22-1