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2016 was supposed to be the year of the banks. As investors counted down the final moments of 2015, they looked hopefully toward the banking sector as economic recovery, rising inflation and improving bond yields were seen benefitting the industry. However, those hopes were quickly dashed, as...

In a new report, Morgan Stanley analyst Betsy Graseck discussed what bank investors can expect if the U.S. falls into a recession or if market fears end up overblown and the economy remains stable. According to Graseck, the risk/reward balance is currently moderately bullish. Morgan Stanley...

A flattening yield curve and diminishing expectations that the Federal Reserve will be able to raise interest rates multiple times this year are among the factors dragging on U.S. bank stocks and the relevant exchange-traded funds. If higher interest rates really are efficacious for bank stocks,...

This week has been a brutal one so far for European banks, as the sector has seen a steep decline amid worries about bad debts and future instability. Germany's Deutsche Bank AG (USA) (NYSE: DB) has fallen nearly 40 percent so far this year, and others like Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE: BCS) and BNP...

Financial sector stocks took a beating in January as investors worried about how banks would cope with falling energy prices and an economic downturn in China. At the close of 2015, banking stocks were high on investors' buy-lists, as most were expecting the Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes...

The cover story in this weekend's Barron's makes a case that the big banks are set for a rebound. The prospects and the headwinds for 10 leading bank stock are laid out. A companion article also lists five battered tech stocks to consider now. With the markets off sharply in January, investors...

Mid-January has been ripe with banking earnings reports, with Q4 results coming in quite lackluster for big banks. In a note out Thursday, Oppenheimer described the industry's anticipated movements within the context of past performances. In the past, Oppenheimer has maintained a "...

On Monday, 13 exchange-traded funds hit 52-week lows and four, or nearly a third, were financial services funds. Members of that dubious quartet were ETFs with significant exposure to regional banks, an industry that has seen rapidly eroding share prices in recent weeks. The SPDR KBW Regional...

This year was meant to be a profitable one for U.S. banks. The U.S. Federal Reserve finally raised interest rates at the end of 2015, something many saw as a positive catalyst for the financial sector going into 2016. However, so far, banking stocks have gotten off to a rocky start, as investors...

Shares of Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE: WFC) have declined 16.74 percent over the past six months, dropping to a low of $48.21 on January 19. Susquehanna’s Jack Micenko has upgraded the rating on the company from Neutral to Positive, with a price target of $56. Falling the pullback in...

The Federal Reserve is just days away from raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. At least that is the point of view being reflected by Fed funds futures. That point of view is also being reinforced by investors' enthusiasm for financial services exchange funds, namely...

As the Federal Reserve ebbs closer to its first interest rate hike in nine years, investors' enthusiasm for bank stocks and exchange-traded funds is growing. That much is reflected by the Select Sector Financial Slct Str SPDR Fd (NYSE: XLF). The Largest Financial Services ETF XLF, the largest...

With the Federal Reserve's December meeting just a few weeks away and expectations rising that the central bank will finally raise interest rates, certain sector exchange-traded funds are garnering renewed inflows. Predictably, that includes financial services ETFs. And when the conversation is...

When it comes to exchange-traded funds that hold bank stocks, many U.S. investors focus on familiar ETFs such as the Select Sector Financial Slct Str SPDR Fd (NYSE: XLF) and the iShares Dow Jones US Financial (ETF) (NYSE: IYF), but that domestic bias could be costing those investors opportunity...

Deep value investor Tim Melvin had the opportunity to speak with Nate Tobik of Complete Bank Data and Oddballstocks.com. Below is a full transcript of their conversation. Benzinga: Hey Nate, how are you doing? Nate Tobik: Good. BZ: Alright. We're on today with Nate Tobik of Complete Bank Data and...