How Tech Can Help With 3 Behavioral Finance Biases
Even if you’re a finance or statistics expert, you’re not immune to common decision-making mistakes that can negatively impact your finances, as…
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Ahead of Earnings, Investors Pour Into Bank ETFs
This week, at least 21.2% of the Russell 1000 Financial Services Index delivers second-quarter earnings reports. Needless to say, with S&P 500…
Financial Services ETFs Play the Fed Waiting Game
Financial services exchange traded have recently been buoyed by rising Treasury yields and speculation that the Federal Reserve is set to boost…
ETF Chart of the Day: Bank Bonanza
We have mentioned the broader U.S. Financials Equity sector in terms of XLF (SPDR Financial Select Sector SPDR, Expense Ratio 0.15%) options…
Investors Bulk up on Bank ETFs, Options
Concerns that the Federal Reserve is close to raising interest rates are no concern at all for investors in financial services exchange…
Pros Ditched Bank ETFs too Soon
With today’s gain of 0.6% (at this writing), the Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSEArca: XLF), the largest financial services exchange traded fund,…
Banks, not REITs are the Better Ways to Financial ETFs
Rising Treasury yields are sapping rate-sensitive, income-generating sectors while providing a lift to the previously moribund financial services sector. Until Aug. 31,…
Some ETFs for an old Takeover Rumor
Financial services exchange traded funds are joining the broader market to the downside Wednesday, but there could be a potential catalyst looming…
Looking for Enthusiasm With Financial Services ETFs
That much has been hard to find this year with exchange traded funds tracking the financial services sector, the second-largest sector weight…
Why You Might Want to Look at Bank ETFs Right Now
Just three of the nine sector SPDR exchange trade funds have traded lower this year. The Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSEArca: XLF),…
Wall Street ETF Awakens
Buoyed by nearly $110 billion in global healthcare deals, mergers and acquisitions surged to an eight-year high of over $843 billion in…
An ETF Idea for Rising Bank Dividends
Bank stocks and exchange traded funds got some got news last week when the Federal Reserve revealed that all 31 large financial…
Waiting on a Beaten up Sector’s ETFs to Bounce
After falling 1.1% on Friday, the Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSEArca: XLF) is down nearly 4% to start 2015 and XLF and…
Momentum Serves This Financial ETF Well
It is no secret that the financial services sector, the second-largest sector weight in the S&P 500 behind technology, has struggled to…