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Friday's ETF Chart To Watch: Financial Select Sector SPDR (XLF)Stoyan Bojinov • Fri, Jul 13, 2012 -
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Bank Of America Leads Financial ETFs HigherTom Lydon • Wed, Mar 21, 2012 -
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Why The Financial ETF XLF Has Outperformed The BanksHenry Swann • Wed, Feb 15, 2012 -
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Financial ETF Down 2% As BAC Again Tests $5John Spence • Mon, Dec 19, 2011 -
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Lots Of Red Across The BoardBespoke Investment Group • Thu, Jun 13 -
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Breadth Hanging In ThereBespoke Investment Group • Wed, Jun 5
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XLF vs. ETF Alternatives
XLF Description
The Financial Select Sector SPDR® Fund, before expenses, seeks to closely match the returns and characteristics of the Financial Select Sector Index. Our approach is designed to provide portfolios with low portfolio turnover, accurate tracking, and lower costs.
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Sector: Financial
Country: United States
Key Info
- In Your Portfolio: Financial Sector ETFs
- Asset Class Performance: Sectors
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- Tuesday, January 8, 3:29 PM Vanguard's recent expense reduction means 9 of its 10 sector ETFs are now the cheapest available to U.S. investors. With an annual expense ratio of just 0.14%, VOX, VPU, VCR, VDC, VDE, VHT, VIS, VGT, and VAW stack up favorably vs. the 0.18% charged by State Street's Sector SPDRs (XLU, XLY, XLP, XLE, XLF, XLV, XLK, XLI, XLB and XTL which charges 0.35%) and the 0.47%-0.48% iShares sector ETFs (RXI, KXI, IYE, IYF, IYZ, IYH, IDU, IYW, IYM, IYJ) charge. At 0.19%, Vanguard Financials (VFH) is still slightly more expensive than the Financial SPDR (XLF). 2 Comments
- Monday, January 7, 9:16 AM With the S&P at a new bull market high, Bespoke looks at sector performance since the last peak on Sept. 14. Leading the pack in the 4-month span are the financials (XLF) +5.2%, followed by Industrials (XLI) +3.6%, and Healthcare (XLV) +3.5%. Bringing up the rear are tech (XLK) -6.9% and Energy (XLE) -3.4%. Comment!
- Sunday, January 6, 9:55 PM Some will call it a back down, some a bow to reality, but the Basel committee approves a far easier liquidity rule for banks than had been proposed 2 years ago. Lenders will be allowed a wider range of assets that qualify as capital buffers, a lower assumed rate of fund outflows in a crisis, and be given until 2019 (rather than 2015) to implement the new regime. 15 Comments [Financials]
- Friday, January 4, 10:47 AM Big-cap bank bulls worried about a little too much love being shown for the hot sector may take comfort from an Atlantic cover and story entitled "What's Inside America's Banks?" It rehashes worries about the opaqueness of bank balance sheets and seems to draw quite a bit from a frustrated Bill Ackman who unloaded his Citigroup stake at a big loss right around the bottom last summer. 12 Comments [Financials]
- Thursday, January 3, 1:36 PM Finally having gotten the message, regulators are expected to lighten up on the banks with the release Sunday of Basel's new liquidity coverage ratio. Working pro-cyclically, regulators for years have been forcing banks to raise liquidity and capital just at the time when they should be encouraged to shovel funds out the door. The coming rule is expected to give lenders extra years to meet the new standard. 2 Comments [Financials]
- Wednesday, January 2, 12:12 PM "Time is running out" for bank managements to prove their low stock valuations are only short-term, says Mike Mayo. He again suggests breaking up the big banks will improve their stock prices, citing surging price-to-book values following the introduction of Glass-Steagall in 1933. 8 Comments [Financials]
- Tuesday, January 1, 11:40 AM Financial services ETFs (XLF, IPF, IXG led all sector ETFs in 2012, followed by consumer discretionary (XLY, IPD, RXI), healthcare (XLV, IRY, IXJ) and tech (XLK, IPK IXN). Utilities (XLU, IPU, JXI) and telecom (IST, IXP) underperformed. Comment! [Quick Ideas]
- Friday, December 28, 2012, 7:12 AM Any hopes the banks had of stalling new Dodd-Frank rules apparently ended with the "London whale" losses which reminded lawmakers and regulators of why they were so up in arms in the first place. Notable was OCC Chief Counsel Julie Williams' departure from her job shortly after waving off the JPMorgan incident as just the cost of doing business. 2 Comments [Financials]
- Thursday, December 20, 2012, 3:39 PM A proposed new accounting rule could force bank loan-loss reserves to be increased by 50%, says FASB head Leslie Seidman, after taking comment from lenders. Even though it could be years before the rule takes effect, profits could begin taking a hit right away as banks stop cutting loss reserves in anticipation. 10 Comments [Financials]
- Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 3:33 PM There's more clarity on financials today than at any point in the past 5 years, says Meredith Whitney, taking to CNBC to talk about her upgrade of several in the sector yesterday. Going into 2012, investors weren't giving Bank of America (BAC) much credit, she says, giving it plenty now by upgrading after a doubling in price this year (she sees another 35% upside). 14 Comments [Financials]
- Monday, December 17, 2012, 6:50 PM Financials add to the regular session's big gains as Meredeth Whitney gets bullish on the sector, particularly Bank of America, Citigroup, and Discover. The catalyst for the group will be the March release of the Fed's stress tests showing them adequately capitalized, paving the way for more share repurchases and dividend bumps. BAC +2.1%, C +0.5%, DFS +2.3%, XLF +0.4% AH. 8 Comments [Financials, On the Move]
- Monday, December 17, 2012, 1:10 PM Leading the market higher are the financials - WFC +3.3%, BAC +3%, PNC +3.3%, to name a few. At a 52-week high of $10.90, Bank of America is poised to take out $11 for the first time in 18 months. Up 1.7% today, the XLF +25.3% YTD. 2 Comments [Financials]
- Friday, December 14, 2012, 3:22 PM Bank of America is reiterated a Buy by JPMorgan's Vivek Juneja, with price target raised to $13 from $11.50. No Dick Bove, Juneja makes the move even as he cuts price targets on 6 of the other 8 big cap banks he follows. Of the 9, just BAC, C, and KEY still trade at discounts to their tangible book value. 7 Comments [Financials, Quick Ideas]
- Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 9:44 AM Bank of America (BAC +2.2%) takes out a new 52-week high, rising on back of the Citigroup's plan to cut 11K jobs. Citi will take a $1B charge in Q4, but save more than $2B over two years - a pretty nice return on investment. The XLF +0.7%. 11 Comments [Financials, On the Move]
- Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 12:38 PM Bank profits reached a 6-year high of $37.6B in Q3, according to the FDIC, but for the first time since the crisis, the better earnings were more about operations and less about reduced loan-loss reserves (chart). 5 Comments [Financials]
- Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 1:57 PM The pendulum continues to swing towards too much capital for banks as the Fed considers forcing U.S. units of foreign lenders to house the businesses in regulated holding companies. It makes sense from the Fed point of view - the U.S. unit of, say, Barclays, could be more easily wound down in a crisis. For the banks, it's another hit to ROE. Comment! [Financials]
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Winner Takes All: The Super-Priority Status Of Derivatives Apr 9 2013 by: Ellen Brown. $BAC $JPM $KBE $XLF http://bit.ly/11SgECQ - View all 4 replies
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x oil -field: .. should visit the SA contributor article,a little to much FDIC doom and gloom for me,but fine article TBT[JAIL] Wall ST fraud[sters].MHO
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x oil -field: $OIL WTI Halts Two-Day Gain as *Surplus Supplies Rise to 32-Year High. http://bloom.bg/16MrlYT $USO
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Morning Notes and Outlook from Philstockworld $$ $EWJ $USO, $SPY $XLF $AA $VIX $TLT #futures #options #stocks -- http://bit.ly/10DzyML - View all 0 replies
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Fed's stress tests on banks have helped strengthen the financial system and contributed to the economic recovery. http://bit.ly/16LvTwO $XLF - View all 2 replies
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x oil -field: Uncle Ben ''A great American Hero of the people''. http://bit.ly/WtPByn http://bit.ly/Vjj63O
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x oil -field: Chairman Ben S. Bernanke Speech -- Stress Testing Banks -- Dodd-Frank Act -- *DFAST. http://1.usa.gov/XAAeV5
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Daniel Nadler
How Do Bank Stocks Historically Perform in the Second Week of April?: http://goo.gl/X5q75 $JPM $MS $GS $BAC $C $WFC $XLF $SPY - View all 0 replies
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White House should also incorporate EU bailout elements into new law that would force haircuts on TBTF or TBTJAIL.http://bit.ly/17ldfis $XLF - View all 1 replies
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x oil -field: ECB's Weidmann: Lesson from Cyprus is TBTF TBTJAIL bank(ers) can be wound down. http://reut.rs/14XXDCi Reuters
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Forget About The Fed Dialing Back QE3 - Buy Bonds Apr 6 2013 by: Sy Harding. $TLT $XLF http://bit.ly/14Wuo2L - View all 43 replies
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x oil -field: EU is preparing to take the apparent non-template Cyprus bailout, and incorporate some elements into a new law that would force haircuts.
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x oil -field: EU to take apparent non-template Cyprus TBTJ bailout,and incorporate elements into new law that would force haircuts. http://bit.ly/17ldfis
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BRUSSELS - Diplomats of the 7 EU countries with embassies in N.Korea are in close constant contact with Pyongyang. Dow Jones Newswires $XLF - View all 5 replies
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x oil -field: It's a *non-event I believe this only a show,and has been worked out with China N.Korea and the White House beforehand.. c>
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x oil -field: ..what better-way to get rid -- dispose of them,a *test,yes?
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The president has made clear that he is willing to compromise and do tough things to reduce the deficits. http://nyti.ms/13WPFJW $XLF NYT - View all 11 replies
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x oil -field: I'm here @SA to make money not ''war and politics'' with anyone,again good luck at close. smile X
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x oil -field: @PC I agree with your thoughts as well,''buy more tunnel'' I must be honest, had to read your comment X2 before I understood. laughing here!
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''The Fed will remain fully accommodative through end of year." $XLF http://bloom.bg/10EiFyB Bloomberg - View all 2 replies
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x oil -field: Jobless Rate Falls: The size of the labor force pushed jobless rate down to a *four-year low. Bloomberg
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x oil -field: 3 May 2011 $FXE The biggest story in the market is the currency crash right now occuring in the US. 'I think'.. http://bit.ly/17RZ6em [not]
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x oil -field: The Honorable Fed Chairman Mr. Bernanke Offers Strong New Assurances He Won't Back Away from Easy-Money Policies. http://bit.ly/YFcNn3
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USD/CHF - US Dollar Swiss Franc. Spot C-(.93|65) H-(.93|75) http://bit.ly/nXGqkT // http://bit.ly/UylbI3 $XLF - View all 2 replies
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WASHINGTON-Securities and Exchange Commission will meet next week to propose rules for exchanges' computer systems. $XLF Dow Jones Newswires - View all 1 replies
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Sorry Bulls, But This Is Still A Secular Bear Market. Feb 25 2013, by: Lawrence Fuller. $SPY http://bit.ly/Wnnrz6 $XLF - View all 9 replies
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x oil -field: TransUnion: $F National Auto Loan Delinquency Rate Ends Year at Near Record Low. http://mwne.ws/XcIK8R
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WASHINGTON--The Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC Puts Off Vote on Swap-Trading Platforms. $XLF Dow Jones Newswires - View all 5 replies
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x oil -field: KNOXVILLE,Tenn.-Federal Reserve should cont. to buy bonds to stimulate growth through summer at a minimum, top central-bank official said.
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Bloomberg: Syrian Rebels [freedom fighters] Plan Transitional Government, Seize Nuclear Center. $XLF http://bloom.bg/XqeGrn - View all 2 replies
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Bloomberg: Martin Zweig, Who Predicted 1987 Market Crash, Dies at 70. http://bloom.bg/YEmKlo $XLF - View all 3 replies
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