FTXO News and Press, First Trust Nasdaq Bank ETF From 06/21/19

Finding the best ETFs is an increasingly difficult task in a world with so many to choose from. How can you pick with so many choices available? Don't Trust ETF Labels There are at least 47 different Technology ETFs and at least 232 ETFs across eleven sectors. Do investors need 21+ choic...

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, ...

The Financials sector ranks first out of the 11 sectors as detailed in our Q2'19 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. Last quarter , the Financials sector ranked second. It gets our Very Attractive rating, which is based on an aggregation of ratings of the 427 stocks in the Fina...

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 ...

At the beginning of the second quarter of 2019, the Financials, Consumer Non-cyclicals, and Telecom Services sectors earn Attractive-or-better ratings. Our sector ratings are based on the normalized aggregation of our stock ratings for every stock in each sector. Our stock ratings are based ...

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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...