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		<title>Financial ETFs are Money in the Banks</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2012/02/financial-etfs-are-money-in-the-banks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial exchange traded funds are outperforming the market on strength in bank stocks and hopes the economic recovery is hitting escape velocity.
Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSEArca: XLF) followed the broader market lower on Friday but is up about 13% so far this year, compared with a gain of roughly 8% for the S&#38;P 500. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Bank ETF Sell-Off a Cause for Concern?</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2012/01/is-the-bank-etf-sell-off-a-cause-for-concern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The financial sector has been a top-performing sector in 2012 after last year&#8217;s debacle, but an unexpected drop in new U.S. home sales prompted a round of profit taking in bank stocks and related exchange traded funds.
SPDR S&#38;P Bank ETF (NYSEArca: KBE) was down 2.5% Thursday and is falling back down to its 200-day simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ETF Chart of the Day: Regional Banks</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2012/01/etf-chart-of-the-day-regional-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2012/01/etf-chart-of-the-day-regional-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Weisbruch, Street One Financial</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we highlight bullish-looking options flows seen in KRE (SPDR S&#38;P Regional Banking) on Monday as the exchange traded fund makes a run at its highest levels in about a year.
The fund tracks the S&#38;P Regional Banks Select Industry Index, with top holdings including CapitalSource CSE (1.83%), Webster Financial WBS (1.81%) and Trustmark TRMK (1.81%).
These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changes In Underlying Indices and ETF Expenses</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/11/changes-in-underlying-indices-and-etf-expenses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/11/changes-in-underlying-indices-and-etf-expenses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Indexing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETF 101]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.etftrends.com/?p=69040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Exchange traded funds (ETFs) have some of the lowest expense ratios in the market. The low costs can be attributed to their passive indexing methodologies, but different indices will create varying cost structures.
At the end of October, State Street Global Advisors switched the underlying benchmark for its Bank ETF to Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s, an equal-weighted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial ETFs Lead Market Decline with Nearly 5% Loss</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/11/financial-etfs-lead-market-decline-with-nearly-5-loss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/11/financial-etfs-lead-market-decline-with-nearly-5-loss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sector ETFs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial exchange traded funds led the way lower in stocks Tuesday as a surprise Greek referendum threatened the Eurozone bailout plan and fallout from MF Global&#8217;s bankruptcy filing weighed on banks.
SPDR S&#38;P Bank ETF (NYSEArca: KBE) and Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSEArca: XLF) lost nearly 5% as the Dow shed almost 300 points.
Greece Prime Minister [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank ETFs Pressured by Rates, Loans</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/10/bank-etfs-pressured-by-rates-loans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/10/bank-etfs-pressured-by-rates-loans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sector ETFs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike the major U.S. stock indexes, exchange traded funds benchmarked to banks and financial stocks haven&#8217;t broken out of their recent trading range.
Now, banks have an interesting problem: they have too much cash, according to a report.
Investors fearful of Europe&#8217;s debt crisis and volatility in the stock market are staying on the sidelines in cash.
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank ETFs Fall After Citigroup, Wells Fargo Earnings</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/10/bank-etfs-fall-after-citigroup-wells-fargo-earnings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sector ETFs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An exchange traded fund indexed to U.S. banks was down over 2% on Monday following mixed quarterly earnings from bellwethers Citigroup (NYSE: C) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC).
The $951 million SPDR KBW Bank ETF (NYSEArca: KBE) fell 2.3% at last check.
Wells Fargo shares slipped almost 6% after the bank’s third-quarter profit missed consensus estimates. Evercore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial ETF Rises 3% on Eurozone, Earnings Hopes</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/10/financial-etf-rises-3-on-eurozone-earnings-hopes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/10/financial-etf-rises-3-on-eurozone-earnings-hopes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial exchange traded funds led the market higher Wednesday on speculation European Union leaders will be able to quell the unrest in debt markets.
Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSEArca: XLF) rallied nearly 3%. The sector ETF also climbed above its 50-day simple moving average on Wednesday. [Stock ETFs Try to Break Free of Trading Range]
Bank stocks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank of America Weighs on Financial ETFs</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/10/bank-of-america-weighs-on-financial-etfs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/10/bank-of-america-weighs-on-financial-etfs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) shares fell nearly 10% on Monday and pulled down financial exchange traded funds, which led the overall stock market lower.
B. of A. shares were pummeled while technical difficulties shut down the bank&#8217;s website, again.
Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEArca: XLF) was down 4.5% at last check Monday and SPDR KBW [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ETF Chart of the Day: Leveraged Financial Sector Funds</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/09/etf-chart-of-the-day-leveraged-financial-sector-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/09/etf-chart-of-the-day-leveraged-financial-sector-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Weisbruch, Street One Financial</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Long-Short ETFs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.etftrends.com/?p=62965</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bullish options flow was evident in exchange traded funds indexed to the U.S. financials sector on Wednesday with relevant activity in both SPDR KBW Bank (NYSEArca: KBE) and Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEArca: XLF).
It is worth noting that the top portfolio holdings of both ETFs are quite similar, with XLF taking a 9.4% position [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Bank ETFs Finally Turning Around?</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/08/are-bank-etfs-finally-turning-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial stocks leading the recent market bounce and Warren Buffett&#8217;s $5 billion investment in Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) have triggered talk that bank exchange traded funds have finally hit bottom.
SPDR KBW Bank ETF (NYSEArca: KBE) is up 8.5% over the past week, roughly doubling the return of the S&#38;P 500. [Buffett Lifts Hopes Financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Contrarian: A Look at Oversold ETFs</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/08/the-contrarian-a-look-at-oversold-etfs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/08/the-contrarian-a-look-at-oversold-etfs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks at Bespoke Investment Group have been kind enough to provide a list this week of the most oversold exchange traded funds measured by distance from the 50-day moving averages.
Ever since S&#38;P announced its downgrade on U.S. debt, followed by growing concern over the Eurozone, more and more negative news has been in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France ETF Falls 7% on Downgrade, SocGen Rumors</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/08/france-etf-falls-7-on-downgrade-socgen-rumors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/08/france-etf-falls-7-on-downgrade-socgen-rumors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Chen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sector ETFs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An exchange traded fund that invests in France fell about 7% on Wednesday in U.S. trading amid speculation the country may lose its triple-A credit rating and talk that Societe Generale was in trouble.
However, the three major credit ratings agencies affirmed France&#8217;s credit rating, Voice of America reported.
Separately, SocGen&#8217;s chief executive in a CNBC telephone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial ETFs Steady as Citi, Wells Fargo Lead Banks</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/06/financial-etfs-steady-as-citi-wells-fargo-lead-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/06/financial-etfs-steady-as-citi-wells-fargo-lead-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strength in large-cap bank stocks such as Citigroup (NYSE: C) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) on Wednesday wasn’t enough to lift financial sector exchange traded funds before the Federal Reserve announcement.
Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEArca: XLF) was flat in morning dealings but could see volatility in the afternoon as markets get the Fed’s view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank ETF Options Traders Look for Rebound</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/06/bank-etf-options-traders-look-for-rebound/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some options traders are positioned to profit if a bank exchange traded fund’s low set earlier this month proves to be a short-term bottom for the troubled sector.
Call buyers in SPDR KBW Bank ETF (NYSEArca: KBE) were active Monday, said Paul Weisbruch at Street One Financial in a strategy note Tuesday. Call options are a [...]]]></description>
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