Options Brief: The iShares Russell 2000 Growth Index Fund (IWO)

Shares of The iShares Russell 2000 Growth Index Fund

are higher on the session by 0.86%, trading at $88.17. Overall put volume is now running at 24.08x the daily average, with 0% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 15,002 contracts have traded on the session so far. The iShares Russell 2000 Growth Index Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Russell 2000 Growth index. The fund invests at least 90 of assets in the securities of the underlying index It uses a replication strategy in order to track the Russell 2000 Growth index which measures the performance of the small-capitalization sector of the US equity broad market. The fund invests in those Russell 2000 index companies with higher price-to-book ratios and higher forecasted growth.