VFH News and Press, Vanguard Financials From 05/16/23

2023-05-16 14:15:00 ET Summary Lipper Financial Services ETFs recorded their largest weekly outflow of the year over the past fund flows week (-$1.4 billion). On top of the bank failures, market participants are worried about the largest U.S. banks gaining an increasing market sha...

2023-05-03 07:52:46 ET Amid worries about a U.S. default as debate rages in Washington about the federal debt ceiling, Barclays argued that investors should head towards cyclicals such as industrials, metals, materials and financials. "Despite default being highly unlikely, equities can...

2023-05-03 01:36:00 ET Summary Why there may be other small lenders set to fail. The Fed is sticking to plan and focusing on fighting inflation, and nothing else. Are niche banks bearing the brunt of interest rate hikes? JPMorgan Chase ( JPM ) has agreed ...

2023-04-25 11:35:00 ET Summary Considering the pace and magnitude of interest rate hikes over the last year, it’s not surprising that issues in the banking industry have resulted in a confidence crisis. The swift and aggressive intervention by regulatory and private sector ...

2023-04-23 07:34:53 ET Summary This may be the best period in many years to own Value ETFs, mutual funds, or sector funds. There is much evidence that Value funds tend to excel when inflation is high as well as interest rates. At the latter part of the economic cycle or in rec...

2023-04-21 11:47:00 ET Summary April has started off on a fairly strong note, with equities and bonds both pushing higher over the past month. This comes at a time when Q2 is fraught with recession worries and a renewed potential for energy shortages. How have stocks managed t...

2023-04-18 09:43:00 ET Summary Changes to the Global Industry Classification Standard adjusted the sector weights in the S&P 500. Sector futures provide a way to manage risk related to the 11 GICS sectors and gain exposure to changes impacting differing sectors of the market. ...

2023-04-17 09:30:33 ET Summary The Charles Schwab Corporation just released its first quarter earnings and mostly beat analysts' estimates. The release missed on revenue but beat on GAAP and adjusted EPS. Heading into the release, I was optimistic about how Schwab would perfor...

2023-04-14 14:19:43 ET Wall Street investors will closely be watching key earnings in the upcoming trading week as some of the largest companies are set to deliver Q1 results. Some of those names include Bank of America ( NYSE: BAC ), Lockheed Martin Corporation ( NYSE: LMT ...

2023-04-07 02:00:00 ET Summary We examine the genesis of the gap between bank deposits and loans. Small bank loan books represent a greater proportion of deposits relative to large banks. This is fine and quite different from Silicon Valley Bank. The outsized exposure of small...