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Glum open, but Financials up and away?
XLF
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+4.72%
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Shares of U.S. financial stocks early Thursday as a continued rally in American International Group and new buy ratings on Dow components American Express and J.P. Morgan Chase had buyers throwing money at the sector. The Financial Select Sector SPDR /quotes/comstock/13*!xlf /quotes/nls/xlf ( XLF 14.07 , -0.01 , -0.07% ) , which tracks the financial stocks in the S&P 500, added about 1%. <> Shares of American International Group /quotes/comstock/13*!aig /quotes/nls/aig ( AIG 24.74 , +2.74 , +12.46% ) continued to rally on T...
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Ofcourse, the stress gig is up
XLF
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-0.25%
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(closed on 05/26/09)
The Fed stress test could be the final capital raise for big banks, unless the economy deteriorates substantially further, says Associate Director of Research Matt Warren. - Morningstar (Target $14.4) Morningstar introduction and analysis The Financial Select Sector SPDR XLF offers investors relatively cheap exposure to the currently out-of-favor financial-services sector. The holdings of this exchange-traded fund are squarely in the cross hairs of the destruction caused by the collapsing domestic housing market, which has wreaked havoc on the financial system via bad loan ...
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A pretty nifty Spider (SPDR Select Sector) - Component Weights
XLF
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+15.93%
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(closed on 08/06/09)
Weight % J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 13.41 Wells Fargo Company 9.17 Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 6.98 Bank of America Corporation 6.18 US Bancorp 3.46 % Assets in Top 5 Holdings 39.20
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Ofcourse, the stress gig is up
XLF
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-0.25%
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(closed on 05/26/09)
The Fed stress test could be the final capital raise for big banks, unless the economy deteriorates substantially further, says Associate Director of Research Matt Warren. - Morningstar (Target $14.4) Morningstar introduction and analysis The Financial Select Sector SPDR XLF offers investors relatively cheap exposure to the currently out-of-favor financial-services sector. The holdings of this exchange-traded fund are squarely in the cross hairs of the destruction caused by the collapsing domestic housing market, which has wreaked havoc on the financial system via bad loan ...
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Bullish on XLF ...
XLF
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+64.47%
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The investment includes companies from the following industries: banks, diversified financials, insurance and real estate. The fund will normally invest at least 95% of its total assets in common stocks that comprise the relevant Select Sector Index. This fund has adopted a policy that requires it to provide shareholders with at least 60 days notice prior to any significant material change in its policy or its underlying index. It is nondiversified.
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From the Blogosphere
Afternoon ETF Check: SMH Up; XLF, TAN, EWJ Down
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- Semiconductor HOLDRs (NYSE: SMH) up $0.19, about 0.75%, to $25.54. Semis are up after Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) reported earnings and revenues above Street estimates.
LOWER:<>Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF) down 0.95% to $14.67. Financials lower as the FDIC reported the number of troubled banks as 552 - the largest since the end of 1993. Also, WSJ highlighted the trillions of debt maturing over the next few year.
<>Claymore/MAC Global Solar Energy (NYSE: TAN) down 0.96% to $9.33. The ETF is down as polysilicon, a key ingredient in solar power collection, is dropping in price. O...
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Notable Midday ETF Movers 11/18: USO, XLF, SEA; UNG, EWJ Lower
HIGHER;- United States Oil Fund LP (NYSE: USO) is up about 0.82% to $40.81. Crude inventories dropped by about 887K, fueling Sweet Crude futures to rise $0.88 to $80.02.
- Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF) trading up modestly to $14.95, about a 0.61% gain. The ETF is helped by a BofA Merrill Lynch report that investors don't see the Fed raising rates until H210. Also, John Paulson said he thinks Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) will double in two years. BAC, which represents a 10.3% holding of the ETF, is up 3.1% today.
Claymore/Delta Global Shipping (NYSE:
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Notable ETF Movers for 11/16: USO, XLF, UNG, UUP
HIGHER;- United States Oil Fund LP (NYSE: USO) up 3% to $40.29. Light sweet crude futures are trading about $2.63 higher on strong retail sales on and weaker dollar.
- Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF) up about 2% to $14.94. News that credit card defaults were down fueled the financial sector, though delinquencies are up.
- United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG) up 3.75% to $9.40. Predictions of below-normal cooler weather in the Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes region are driving the price as speculators see a rise in demand for heating gas later in November into early December.
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Notable ETF Movers: XLF, XHM, AGQ, SGG Up; IEO, EWU, TBT Down
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StreetInsider.com Notable ETF Movers:HIGHER;<>Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF) up 1.2% following comments from a executives at a BofA/ML banking conference. Citigroup's (NYSE: C) Vice Chairman Ned Kelly said the company's balance sheet is very liquid.
SPDR S&P Homebuilders (NYSE: XHB) up about 2.4% to $15.20 after Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL) reported a strong preliminary four quarter results.
<> Ultra Silver ProShares (NYSE: AGQ) is trading about 1.1% higher as December silver futures are up about 1.8%, after a relatively flat trading day yesterday. Weakness in the dollar is contribu...
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How Apple's Market Share Will Propel Stock to $500, Part 2
Back on December 5, 2007 I sent the following note to investors (economictiming.com): The rate of change of economic data is worsening so it’s time to short the following group of downside leadership: Financial Sector SPDR (XLF) at $30.60, MGIC Investment Corp (MTG) at $23.75, Amabac (ABK) at $23.70, Countrywide Financial at $10.45, Freddie Mac (FRE) at $33.30, Beazer Homes (BZH) at $8.13, PMI Group (PMI) at $12.65, and Citigroup (C) at $33.40.
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