In the week since the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting minutes revealed the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates for the first time this year in June, financial services stocks and exchange-traded funds are reacting as expected.
For example, the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLF), one of the laggards among sector ETFs this year, is higher by 2.6 percent over the past week. Over that stretch, investors have pumped $436.3 million into XLF, the largest ETF tracking the financial services sector.
Assets And Short Selling
Investors' enthusiasm for regional bank ETFs, a group of funds far more positively correlated to rising interest rates than are diversified financial services ETFs, has not been as robust. Still lighter ...
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