The banking sector is one of the worst performing sectors year-to-date. The effects of the banking crisis earlier this year are still being felt by the banks and to add to the pain, rising interest rates have only made it worse. The S&P 500 is up by just over 10% YTD on price basis as …
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Bank stocks are hot again. With the planned increase in interest rates by the Federal Reserve the market is betting that banks are bound to benefit. Banks’ earnings would go higher as the Net Interest Margin (NIM) would rise. NIM is the difference in interest paid out to depositors and the interest received by banks …
Among the foreign bank stocks trading on the US exchanges, all the Latin American bank stocks are down year-to-date as of last Friday (July 16, 2021) in addition to Credit Sussie (CS) of Switzerland. Credit Sussie is down about 24% due to multiple corruption and other charges currently ongoing against the bank. Chilean banks plunged …
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The banking industry in the US is one of the highly regulated and competitive industries. Thousands of banks operate in the country with some as small as one or branches. In addition, a few banks operate as online only banks. Of these banks, investors have quite a few options to invest in some of the …
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European bank stocks are recovering after a decade of disastrous performance. While US banks have recovered from the Global Financial Crisis(GFC) and also the Covid pandemic, banks from Europe barely survived. In addition to these, some of the other factors that crushed European lenders include the many years and iterations of sovereign debt crisis, money …
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