Stock Market Today: Dow scores over 300-point gain, stocks near session highs
The Russell 2000 equity gauge, which tracks companies with only a fraction of the market capitalization of their large-cap counterparts, is on pace to best the S&P 500's 3.5% gain so far in May, as well as the Dow Jones Industrial Average's 4.1% advance and the Nasdaq Composite Index's 4.5% climb on the month so far.