The small and mid-cap space is full of opportunity… and risk. So how do investors sort the wheat from the chaff?

Stunning to watch the precipitous decline in the closely tracked American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Investor Sentiment Survey. The February 26 print of 19.4% marks a significant downward move from the prior week (29.2%), suggesting a give-up in investor confidence is underway.

Not the whole curve, rather the closely watched 10 year-2 year section of the US Treasury yield curve.