US equity markets retreated for a third session albeit settled well off their worst levels of the session - Dow settled -20-points or -0.07%, recovering from an earlier fall of over >300-points The broader S&P500 -0.15%, with weakness in Health Care (down -0.72%), Communication Services (-0.65%) and Information Technology (-0.44%) offsetting gains for the Energy (up +1.17%) and Financials (+0.81%) sectors. The technology centric Nasdaq lost -0.47%, with Facebook Inc down -1.9% amid fresh regulatory concerns. The Financial Times reported that France and the Netherlands are endorsing a plan for the European Union to curb the power of Big Tech, including by possibly breaking companies up. Equity strategists at Goldman Sachs said that the next few months are likely to see shifts in policy and the economy that support a “quite large,” if temporary, rotation The small-capitalisation Russell 2000 index gained +1.1% and outperformed its peer equity gauges by the greatest margin since late April, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The last time the Russell 2000 outperformed its peers by greater than >1% was 28 April, when markets were wrestling with the market's rebound from lows hit on 23 March. The other periods of outperformance for the Russell 2000 were 30 July, 2019, October of 2014, June of 2006 and June of 2002.