Tag: financial sector

Looking at the new highs list Wednesday, it was an incredible day for retail as 46 of roughly 200 names were consumer goods. What’s...

With a single exception, the major money center banks and bank holding companies we checked in on at the market's February bottom (here) are...

Following yesterday's close, the Fed released the final installment of its annual stress test (the CCAR) of the 30 largest TBTF "systemically significant" banking institutions...

While the S&P 500 (SPY) has taken back almost 90% of the losses incurred in January's pullback, Financials (XLF) ended Friday having traversed barely...

Bank stocks have seen better days. Large US money center banks (e.g. Bank of America) and bank holding companies (e.g. Goldman Sachs) with few exceptions...

By Andrew Nyquist On December 23rd, I posted about financial sector leadership and the strength in the XLF. However, at the time, it was in need...

By Andrew Nyquist Considering all the fiscal cliff dramatics, it's amazing to think that the Financial Sector (XLF) has been one of the best performing sectors...

By Andrew Nyquist Of the 3 major market indices, the S&P 500 is showing the most strength, breaking out above the downtrend line and closing on...

Similar to the Bank Index (BKX), the Financials Select Sector (XLF) is on the verge of breaking out. So if the finnies aren't already...

                                  Financials Select Sector (XLF) annotated daily chart with technical analysis overlay as of June 8, 2012.  Price analysis with support and resistance levels and...