FNCL News and Press, Fidelity MSCI Financials Index From 03/16/23

2023-03-16 08:20:00 ET Summary We use buying in ProShare short ETFs as proxies for measuring actual short selling by investors. The ratio of the money buying the two ProShare financial short ETFs versus the long financial ETF is 4.24 and rapidly approaching last year's all-time hi...

2023-03-16 01:24:00 ET Summary The crisis has broader macroeconomic implications and serves as a potent reminder that the banking system, asset markets, and the broader economy are all intrinsically linked via interest rates. Recession risks have increased because of the likelihoo...

2023-03-16 00:19:00 ET Summary Runs on banks happen regularly, but this time recent events have sent reverberations across financial markets. We should expect increased regulation and oversight globally. The startup-company niche clientele of SVB must rethink its approach to b...

2023-03-15 11:30:00 ET Summary All over the world, people are moving cash out of low-yielding bank accounts and into higher-yielding deposits. Shareholder equity and retained earnings (tier-one capital) are the primary funding source for banks. Losses in the sector manifest in...

2023-03-14 09:05:00 ET Summary The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has raised concerns about the vulnerabilities in the US financial system. While SVB is not Lehman Brothers and its collapse is not likely to trigger a financial crisis, it has highlighted some vulnerabilities that ...

Summary A comparison of funds results in inconsistent outcomes. Investment sectors impacted fund comparisons. Do not lose sight of a fund manager's declared mission. From science and mathematics, I learned that a hypothesis is often posed as a question. What follows is res...

Summary Purchasing Managers' Index from S&P Global provides a unique insight into worldwide economic trends, allowing the analysis of business activity by detailed sector in the world's principal regions. S&P Global PMI surveys recorded a fifth month of contracting worldwide bus...

Summary Global business conditions worsened in the penultimate month of the year according to the JPMorgan Global Composite PMI, compiled by S&P Global. New order expansions were seen in merely three of the 21 sectors tracked by the global PMI - software & services, pharmaceutic...

Summary Why the declines in tech on the S&P 500 may be hiding strength in other sectors from investors. The energy sector may still provide opportunities for investors. Insurers are not suffering the same challenges as other financials in the current high-rate environment....

Summary FNCL invests in financial companies. FNCL likely remains undervalued, while cyclical positioning is improving given markets' tendency to lead the real economy. Financial stocks' recent out-performance could continue into the next business cycle. Fidelity MSCI...