Small-capitalization stocks have raced past larger companies over the past 12 months, recently benefiting from a surge in merger-and-acquisition activity focused on smaller companies.
Since late 2009, U.S. deal flow has risen significantly. Deals involving small-cap companies are grabbing a larger share of the activity, taking back the headlines from the large-cap action that dominated before [...]

PowerShares will introduce a family of nine sector exchange-traded funds investing in U.S. small-capitalization stocks early next month. The ETFs are the PowerShares S&P SmallCap Health Care Portfolio, the PowerShares S&P SmallCap Materials Portfolio, the PowerShares S&P SmallCap Industrials Portfolio, the PowerShares S&P SmallCap Utilities Portfolio, the PowerShares S&P SmallCap [...]