Key Takeaways Tech investors are smiling today, but they've had a tough time lately. Many value-oriented assets, meanwhile, have been feeling the love. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite, despite gains in the back half of this week, has underperformed the blue- chip Dow Jones Industrial Average and the small-cap Russell 2000 over the past several months. Heading into Friday, the Nasdaq had risen about 1.5% since the start of the fourth quarter, about half the return of the Russell or the Dow. While the benchma ...