BNKU News and Press, MicroSectors U.S. Big Banks Index 3X Lev From 10/03/23

2023-10-03 02:12:00 ET Summary As rates rise, a bank’s assets tend to reprice faster than its liabilities. Neobanks and fintechs are the offspring of low rates and technological disruption. New production — slower credit growth due to tighter conditions and a det...

2023-09-27 21:40:00 ET Summary Falling valuations of commercial real estate (CRE), especially in downtown office areas, will have a limited impact on both large globally systemically important banks (G-SIBs) and regional banking organizations, due to manageable exposure to the sector....

2023-09-26 02:12:00 ET Summary Nominal and inflation-adjusted yields haven’t been this high in about 15 years. Monetary policy is becoming quite restrictive, and ultimately, we think it will cause an economic slowdown, if not a mild recession. We see significant global ...

2023-09-19 22:50:00 ET Summary Banks have reemerged as a potential pain point for the investment community, as rating agencies recently embarked on a downgrade cycle in the sector. There’s no single cause for these bank downgrades, which means this probably should not be ta...

2023-08-24 02:45:00 ET Summary As an active investment manager, we are constantly monitoring and re-evaluating our holdings to make sure that they continue to track our investment strategies. The technology sector has been dominating this year, in fact it was the driver behind the...

2023-08-23 13:10:00 ET Summary Bank assets and liabilities are at an extreme duration mismatch, where balance sheets are filled with long-duration, low-yielding fixed-income securities and loans, while liabilities are shorter-term than previously anticipated. Significant issues pe...

2023-08-10 01:45:00 ET Summary Recession? Soft Landing? Getting a read on where the US economy is headed hasn’t been easy. We believe that the supply and demand sides of the economy meet at the labor market. And it, though strong by historical standards, has started to soft...

2023-08-01 02:30:00 ET Summary The Federal Reserve's Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey shows banks are being increasingly restrictive in their lending practices. Households and businesses are wary of taking on additional borrowing. Given how important credit flow is to the US...

2023-07-26 11:50:00 ET Summary While Q1 2023 ended with the banking instability threatening to erase market gains, U.S. equity markets recovered, and the Syntax US 500 Large Cap Index rose 8.9 % in Q2, driven predominantly by an AI-induced rally. Cooling inflation numbers and expe...

2023-07-13 02:35:00 ET Summary Despite a meaningful rally in the second quarter, bank spreads are still wide relative to the broader investment-grade corporate market. In March, the spread differential between the Bloomberg U.S. Investment Grade Banking Index and the Bloomberg U.S...