FINU News and Press, ProShares UltraPro Financial Select Sector ProShares Trust

Forgetting energy, the financials ( XLF   -8.9% ) got hit harder than any sector today after the Fed more or less pledged to buy nearly any piece of paper out there with freshly minted dollars. More news on: Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, Bank of America Corporation, Citigroup In...

In the 1980s, I founded a boutique investment research firm in Manhattan, and published institutional research I called “Contrarian Research.” I spent a lot of time in the oil patch, and lost more than my unfair share of money there. Of the bad bets, of which there were several, ...

Even before coronavirus clouded the global economic outlook, Odeon Capital analyst Dick Bove was warning that the banking industry's business model was changing radically and would result in lower margins and profits for most of the companies in the sector. More news on: Financial Select S...

With the new year  comes a new accounting standard  that will affect most big lenders in how they reserve for potential losses on loans. More news on: Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3x Shares ETF, Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3x Shares ETF, Finan...

U.S. banks' business lending activities have stalled in H2 2019, crimped by an industrial slowdown and cheap financing available in the capital markets. More news on: Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3x Shares ETF, Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3x Shares ET...

Bank stocks take a beating , as renewed trade war fears send the 10-year Treasury yield tumbling toward its biggest decline in more than three years. More news on: Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Morgan Stanley, Financial stocks news, Stocks on the move, ...

Diversified big bank stocks have been on a roll since the start of earnings season. Following EPS beats, Bank of America ( BAC ), JPMorgan Chase ( JPM ), Morgan Stanley ( MS ), and US Bancorp ( USB ) are up at least +10.0% each. The Solactive Big Banks Index (biggest 10 U.S. Banks by market ca...

The news media, bank executives, the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) chairman and even presidential candidates have made remarks about the recent spike in short-term funding rates. What caused the spike, and why is it important? In mid-September, there was a significant spike in the overnight...

Lagging deposit repricing, tight lending spreads, and lower yield curve across all points are putting pressure on banks' net interest margins, writes Credit Suisse's Susan Roth Katzke in a note. More news on: Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF, Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3x Shares ETF, Di...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, one of the U.S. government agencies that regulate banks, proposes easing a post-financial crisis restriction that determines how much cash big banks should set aside to safeguard derivatives trades between affiliates. More news on: Financial Sel...