DPST News and Press, Direxion Daily Regional Banks Bull 3X Shares From 05/22/19

By Justin Murray Broadly speaking, banks operate under the concept of maturity transformation. Banks take short-term - less than one year - financing vehicles, such as customer deposits, and use that to finance long-term - more than one year - returns. These returns range from the most com...

Regional banks are faring better than the megabanks as the broader markets fluctuate in a session reflecting the ever-shifting trade-war landscape. More news on: SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF, Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, Citigroup Inc., Financial stocks news, Stocks on the move, ...

Randal Quarles, the Federal Reserve's vice chairman for supervision, tells the Senate Banking Committee that "competition in the banking industry is as good as competition anywhere," which suggests he's not worried about the pending merger between regional banks BB&T ( BBT -1% ) and ...

A Wells Fargo bank vault (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Associated Press Banks eased credit standards for business loans this quarter, reversing the tightening of late 2018. That sharp increase in banks tightening credit standards was coincident with the general doom and gloom which accompanied the ...

Read more ...

More US bank respondents reported to the Federal Reserve that they are seeing weaker demand for Commercial & Industrial Loans than at any time since the end of the Great "Recession." The Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (SLOOS) asks respondents to gauge certain ...

While Goldman Sachs ( GS -3.2% ) and Citigroup ( C -0.1% ) Q1 earnings exceeded consensus estimates, investors weren't impressed and bank stocks, in general, slumped. More news on: The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Citigroup Inc., Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, Financial stocks news, S...

This article provides an impact assessment of the FOMC April/May30-1 2019 meeting and a possible rise in the Federal Funds Rate ((FFR)) to 2.75%. The Federal Reserve held the target range for FFR at 2.25-2.5 percent during its policy meeting of March 2019 and reaffirmed its position to be pa...

In his recent memoir, Keeping At It , Paul Volcker gave me greater perspective on the trials and tribulations of leading the US Federal Reserve and pursuing public policy. That's hardly a surprise. Few public servants over the last several generations can rival Volcker's breadth of experience...

“ Warren Buffett Doubles Down on Big Banks ….” So reads the headlines of the article written by Katherine Chiglinsky and Ben Foldy in Bloomberg LP today. Buffett, as is well known, likes to buy when companies are out-of-favor. In the last part of 2018, this certainly was...