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	<title>ETF Trends &#187; Regional Banks</title>
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	<description>Setting the Pace for Exchange Traded Funds</description>
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		<title>S&amp;P’s Picks for Regional Bank ETFs</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2012/01/sp%e2%80%99s-picks-for-regional-bank-etfs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2012/01/sp%e2%80%99s-picks-for-regional-bank-etfs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feature Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sector ETFs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IAT]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regional bank exchange traded funds have been rallying the past few weeks to lead the financial sector and outperform large-cap banks.
Year to date through Jan. 11, SPDR S&#38;P Regional Banking ETF (NYSEArca: KRE) was up 7.4%, more than doubling the 2.9% gain for the S&#38;P 500, according to Morningstar. [Regional Bank ETFs Display Financial-Sector Strength]
Trading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preferred Stock ETFs, Regional Banks Display Financial-Sector Strength</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2012/01/preferred-stock-etfs-regional-banks-display-financial-sector-strength/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2012/01/preferred-stock-etfs-regional-banks-display-financial-sector-strength/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sector ETFs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preferred Stock]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exchange traded funds that invest in preferred shares and regional banks have been leading the recent gains in the financial sector.
Over the past week, SPDR S&#38;P Bank ETF (NYSEArca: KBE), PowerShares KBW Bank Portfolio (NYSEArca: KBWB), SPDR S&#38;P Regional Banking (NYSEArca: KRE) and iShares DJ US Regional Banks (NYSEArca: IAT) are among the top-performing unleveraged [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Sector ETFs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IAT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KBE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KBWR]]></category>
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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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KBE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead]]></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>ETF Spotlight: SPDR KBW Regional Banking (KRE)</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/09/etf-spotlight-spdr-kbw-regional-banking-kre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/09/etf-spotlight-spdr-kbw-regional-banking-kre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ETF Spotlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ETF 101]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regional Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sector ETFs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ETF Spotlight on SPDR KBW Regional Banking (NYSEArca: KRE), part of an ongoing series on individual exchange traded funds.
Assets: $410.12 million.
Objective: SPDR KBW Regional Banking ETF tries to reflect the performance of the KBW Regional Banking Index, which is an equal-weighted index that holds publicly traded companies that do business as regional banks or thrifts.
Holdings: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Counterintuitive Decline in Regional Bank ETFs</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/08/a-counterintuitive-decline-in-regional-bank-etfs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/08/a-counterintuitive-decline-in-regional-bank-etfs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael A. Gayed CFA</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feature Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sector ETFs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DIA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As European leaders grapple with the credit crisis, you might think that some of the worst-performing areas of the market would be located in the troubled region.
However, Mr. Market loves to confuse and surprise. Take a look below at the price ratio of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Regional Banks (NYSEArca: IAT) relative to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huntington, Bank of America Lift Bank ETFs</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/06/huntington-b-of-a-lift-bank-etfs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/06/huntington-b-of-a-lift-bank-etfs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bank exchange traded funds moved higher Tuesday thanks in part to strength in components Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Huntington Bancshares (NasdaqGS: HBAN).
SPDR KBW Bank ETF (NYSEArca: KBE) added nearly 1%, while Huntington climbed 3% and B. of A. rose about 1%.
The bank ETF has 6.3% in B. of A. and 4.8% in Huntington. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank ETFs Shake Off Report of Mortgage-Securities Probe</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/05/bank-etfs-shake-off-report-of-mortgage-securities-probe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 14:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial and bank exchange traded funds rose Tuesday morning despite a report that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is investigating mortgage securities packaged by big banks such as Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS).
Schneiderman will hold meetings with executives at several large banks in the coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial ETFs Dive as Goldman, Bank of America See ‘Death Cross’</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/05/financial-etfs-dive-as-goldman-bank-of-america-see-%e2%80%98death-cross%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 19:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.etftrends.com/?p=53647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bank exchange traded funds were the worst sector in Friday’s stock pullback with shares of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) seeing so-called death crosses that could spell further weakness.
Traders closely monitor moving averages to get a sense for where stocks and ETFs are trending. When the 50-day moving average drops [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial ETFs Take Citigroup Reverse Split in Stride</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/05/financial-etfs-take-citigroup-reverse-split-in-stride/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/05/financial-etfs-take-citigroup-reverse-split-in-stride/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 19:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Citigroup’s (NYSE: C) 10-for-1 reverse share split has dramatically reduced overall trading volume in the U.S. stock market, but it turned out to be a nonevent for exchange traded funds tracking the financial sector and banks.
Citi’s reverse split and plans to pay a dividend are partly designed to attract more institutional investors to the shares. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citigroup Drags on Underperforming Financial and Bank ETFs</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/05/citigroup-drags-on-underperforming-financial-and-bank-etfs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/05/citigroup-drags-on-underperforming-financial-and-bank-etfs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 17:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 2% decline in Citigroup (NYSE: C) shares on Monday weighed on a bid by bank and financial exchange traded funds (ETFs) to break above their 50-day moving average and get back on track.
Citi is a top holding in sector ETFs such as Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEArca: XLF) and SPDR KBW Bank ETF [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep an Eye on Brazil ETFs and Regional Banks: Strategist</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/04/keep-an-eye-on-brazil-etfs-and-regional-banks-strategist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/04/keep-an-eye-on-brazil-etfs-and-regional-banks-strategist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An investment strategist for exchange traded fund (ETF) manager iShares recommends investors keep an eye on Brazil ETFs and regional banks.
Some analysts like valuations in regional banks and the potential for takeovers by larger rivals. There are plenty of regional bank ETFs to help investors gain well-rounded exposure to this area of the market. [7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial ETFs Caught in Downdraft</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/04/financial-etfs-caught-in-downdraft/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/04/financial-etfs-caught-in-downdraft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.etftrends.com/?p=52002</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Financial exchange traded funds (ETFs) that focus on some of the market&#8217;s most active stocks such as Citigroup (NYSE: C) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) just can&#8217;t get into gear.
Financial-sector ETFs are trading below where they stood in February as the bank earnings season has not gone well.
Still, Deutsche Bank analysts said Citigroup is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial ETF Down 1% on Goldman Probe</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/04/financial-etfs-see-more-pain-on-goldman-probe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/04/financial-etfs-see-more-pain-on-goldman-probe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exchange traded funds (ETFs) tracking the financial sector were set to extend their losing streak on Thursday after a Senate panel released a scathing report on Goldman Sachs’ role in the financial crisis.
The $8.6 billion Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEArca: XLF) was down 1% in early trading Thursday.
The Senate subcommittee is urging the Justice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank ETFs Lower on J.P. Morgan, Mortgage Overhaul</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/04/investors-trade-bank-earnings-with-financial-etfs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/04/investors-trade-bank-earnings-with-financial-etfs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bank exchange traded funds (ETFs) were down 1% Wednesday afternoon along with J.P. Morgan shares after the company reported quarterly results.
Deutsche Bank analysts in a research note said J.P. Morgan’s quarterly trading results were better than expected and credit improved, but that mortgage-related issues continued to drag on the bank.
Also weighing on the banking sector [...]]]></description>
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