{"id":3298,"date":"2026-04-28T14:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/04\/28\/russell-2000-leads-market-downturn-first-major-index-to-enter-correction-territory\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:12:31","slug":"russell-2000-leads-market-downturn-first-major-index-to-enter-correction-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/04\/28\/russell-2000-leads-market-downturn-first-major-index-to-enter-correction-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell 2000 Leads Market Downturn, First Major Index to Enter Correction Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russell 2000 has become the first major U.S. stock index to enter correction territory in 2026, falling more than 10% from its recent high. This downturn is attributed to factors like the Iran conflict and rising oil prices, highlighting the sensitivity of small-cap companies to economic shifts.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/18\/small-cap-focused-russell-2000-becomes-first-us-benchmark-to-enter-correction-territory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russell 2000 has become the first major U.S. stock index to enter correction territory in 2026, falling more than 10% from its recent high. This downturn is attributed to factors like the Iran conflict and rising oil prices, highlighting the sensitivity of small-cap companies to economic shifts. READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbc.com\/api\/images\/108279589\/1679296000000\/GettyImages-1641497741.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,30,31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","category-global-security","category-technology","category-travel","rifnote_country-iran","rifnote_executive-sam-stovall"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbc.com\/api\/images\/108279589\/1679296000000\/GettyImages-1641497741.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}