After back-to-back weekly gains of more than 6%, the small-cap Russell 2000 has kept the momentum going to start the week as it is already up over 2% today. The fact that the index was up more than 5% in back to back weeks was pretty incredible enough; going back to the index’s start in the 1970s, it has only happened seven other times with the last occurrence coming all the way back in 2009. In fact, it not only happened once in 2009, but in three separate months (April, June, and July)!

The big gains in the Russell 2000 over the last two weeks has also helped the Russell 2000 to widen its lead in terms of market cap compared to Apple (AAPL). With a market cap of just over $2.5 trillion, the Russell 2000’s market cap is now close to $500 billion more than AAPL’s market cap. That’s a pretty sizable lead, but back on September first, AAPL’s market cap actually topped the entire market cap of the Russell 2000 for the first time in history. The honeymoon for AAPL didn’t last long, though. The next day its market cap dipped back below the Russell 2000s and hasn’t topped it again since.