Small-Cap ETF Investors Prompted to Increase Bearish Bets

The Russell 2000 Index and the S&P SmallCap 600 Index are up 4% and 1.7%, respectively, year-to-date, confirming the laggard status of smaller U.S. stocks. Those performances pale in comparison to the 9% returned by the S&P 500, weighing on ETFs such as the SPDR Russell 2000 ETF...