View: Don't Chase Last Year's Hot Stuff By Martha Slud NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many investors are kicking themselves for missing one of the few bright spots in the stock market last year -- stocks of small companies.
After all, many little-known health care, retail and energy companies that were relatively unscathed by the nation's economic malaise saw their stocks surge last year. And value-oriented mutual funds that invest in these and other small companies jumped an average 16.4 percent in 2001, according to fund data tracker Lipper Inc.
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