4 reasons to weight your portfolio toward small-cap growth stocks in 2017 By: MarketWatch December 22, 2016 at 08:17 AM EST Investors have been piling into financial stocks since Election Day, but the Russell 2000 has been blasting past the S&P 500. Read More >> Related Stocks: Bank of America FINANCIAL SEL Russell 2000 Ishares ETF S&P Smallcap 600 Growth Vanguard SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust Standard & Poors 500 Wells Fargo