ZIRP

Through some of the go-go days of the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing and zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) schemes, investors regularly heard about share buybacks among S&P 500 member firms flirting with or reaching records. Really, the math was too simple and compelling to ignore....

Avid followers and traders of financial services stocks know the story all too well at this point. The Federal Reserve declined to raise interest rates following its September meeting. Financial services stocks and exchange-traded funds languished in the wake of that decision. Regional Banks And...

For as much as financial services exchange-traded funds want the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, utilities want the Fed to continue its near zero interest rate policy for as long as possible. The reasoning is simple. Few sectors are as rate-sensitive as utilities. Recent showings by...

Last week, the Federal Reserve opted to maintain its zero interest rate policy (ZIRP). Now, market participants turn their attention to the Fed's October and December meetings – the central bank's remaining 2015 meetings, as possible “liftoff” dates. That means markets...

It is no secret that financial services stocks and the corresponding exchange-traded funds are eager for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, something the central bank declined to do last week. Investors' disdain for the Fed's continuation of its zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) as...

The Federal Reserve's decision Thursday to maintain its zero interest rate policy (ZIRP), not surprisingly, dealt a blow to regional bank stocks and the corresponding exchange traded funds. However, recent flows data for ETFs such as the SPDR KBW Regional Banking (ETF) (NYSE: KRE), the largest...