RWW News and Press, Invesco S&P Financials Revenue ETF Invesco Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II From 12/03/19

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, ...

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...

The 10-year Treasury yield whooshed lower earlier today after the ECB announced a rate cut and new wave of QE. That's reversed in a big way, with the yield now higher by 5.5 basis points on the session to 1.79%. TLT   -0.7% , TBT   +1.4% More news on: iShares 20+ Year Treas...

Energy is now just 4.5% of the S&P 500 market cap weight, down from a high of 15% in September 2014, when crude oil was trading around $80-$100 per barrel and just before the commodity tanked to $28 per share by early 2016. It's shocking what has happened to the sector. Can't recall wh...

The Financial sector has been an overweight for some time in client accounts, and it's hurt performance for the last two years, or since Jan 1, '18. Clients' biggest financial weighting has been Schwab (SCHW) given its asset-gathering prowess (and it is our only 3rd party client custodian) a...

About 10% of the S&P 500 will report next week, and 24 of those 52 scheduled reports will be Financial companies. Here is the S&P 500 Earnings data by the numbers: (Source: IBES by Refinitiv) Fwd 4-qtr est: $174.68 vs. $174.87 from last week PE ratio: 17.25x PEG ...

Attached is a weekly chart of Schwab (SCHW), clients' 2nd largest holding behind Microsoft (MSFT), and a mutual fund firm with $3.5-$4 trillion in assets under management, assets greater than Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and a host of others. I was out to dinner a few weeks ago, with friend...

Volumes in the futures markets have moved significantly higher since the turn of the century, and the number of products offered by exchanges around the globe has increased. Futures offer hedgers, arbitrageurs, investors, and speculators the ability to add or remove risk from their portfolios....