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- Sector Weighting of the S&P 500: Financials Drop from First to Fifth
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: A new king has been crowned out of the ten sectors of the S&P 500, while the old one has fallen hard. We've highlighted historical sector weightings of the S&P 500 a few times in the past, and the Financial sector has...
- External links 2009-01-16
- S&P 500 Financial Sector at Key Inflection Point
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: The S&P 500 Financial sector is down just over 12% from its recent intraday high last Friday. And heading into next Monday, the sector is currently sitting at a key inflection point that should help identify which way the sector will trade...
- External links 2009-05-15
- Overreaction by the Financial Sector to the Upside
- In the meltdown of the past year, financials plunged as investors feared many banks would fail, much like Lehman Brothers. As the market realized that the government was able to prop up the weakest of the “to big to fail” banks, some level of confidence returned. Beginning in March, the...
- External links 2009-09-25
- Average Hourly Performance of the Financial Sector
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Even though the S&P 500 Financial sector is down more than 50% since the start of last September, the sector has actually averaged gains during two hours of the day since then. As shown below, the 2 PM to 3 PM ET...
- External links 2009-03-26
- S&P 500 Financial Sector Trendlines
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: The S&P 500 Financial sector is trading down about 1.7% today after a 2% decline yesterday. If this decline holds, it will be the first back to back 1%+ decline for the sector since July 7th - July 8th. With today's...
- External links 2009-09-24
- S&P 500 Key Sector Relative Strength
- There has been much talk recently of firms unwinding their long commodity and short financial strategies. The energy sector experienced a quick 20% decline and financial stocks began to look attractive, for a minute. Below we look at selected sectors' relative strength versus the S&P 500. The chart begins on...
- External links 2008-08-20
- S&P 500 Financial Sector Overbought
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: The S&P 500 Financial sector is now 28.5% above its 50-day moving average. Below we highlight the historical 50-day moving average % spread for the sector going back to 1990 as far back as daily sector pricing goes. As shown, just...
- External links 2009-04-17
- Long-Term Charts of the Financial Sector
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: A look at long-term charts of the S&P 500 Financial sector is downright depressing. The first chart below dates back to 1990, and as shown, the sector closed at its lowest level since March 1995 yesterday. The sector is now down...
- External links 2009-01-21
- Long-Term Charts of the Financial Sector
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: A look at long-term charts of the S&P 500 Financial sector is downright depressing. The first chart below dates back to 1990, and as shown, the sector closed at its lowest level since March 1995 yesterday. The sector is now down...
- External links 2009-01-22
- Financial Sector Bounced Nicely So Far
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: After the close on Friday, we pointed out that the S&P 500 Financial sector was sitting at a key inflection point that could shape the direction of the sector in the months ahead. The sector's action so far this morning favors the...
- External links 2009-05-18
- Financials, Energy Lead Wall St Higher
- By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose to 10-month highs on Monday, extending last week's gains as investors became even more optimistic about signs that major world economies were emerging from recession. With little new U.S. data on Monday to give the market direction, investors built on upbeat...
- News items 2009-08-24
- TAIWAN'S NEW FINANCIAL HOLDING COS HERALD BIG CHANGES: MOODY'S.
- HONG KONG, Feb 20 Asia Pulse - The recent establishment of financial holding companies in Taiwan provides an opportunity for some institutions to shake up the financial sector's status quo and may also become a major catalyst for ratings changes, Mo HONG KONG, Feb 20...
- Research articles 2003-02-20
- S&P 500 and the Financials
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: With all this talk of imminent doom for our financial system, one would think that the Financial sector and the overall equity market would be making simultaneous lows. As shown below, however, both are still above their July lows, and the S&P 500...
- External links 2008-09-15
- Luxembourg's banks maintain long-term attractiveness: the proposed EU-wide tax-sharing information system is unlikely to undermine the prominence of the Grand Duchy's financial sector. (Standard & Poor's).(Brief Article)
- Luxembourg ranks eighth among the largest financial centres in the world. It also has the greatest banking concentration in the European Community, with 189 banks -- for the most part foreign -- at December 31, 2001. Because of the financial sector's Luxembourg ranks eighth among the...
- Research articles 2002-08-01
- Financial Sector Breakout?
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: The S&P 500 Financial sector managed to close just above the top of its recent trading range off of the July lows Monday. While this is a positive for technicians, the same short-term breakout occurred in late April when the sector broke out...
- External links 2008-09-09
- Unkind January for S&P 500 Index's Dividend Payers
- David I. Templeton submits: Dividend payers are not getting off to a good start in 2009. For the month of January, the dividend payers in the S&P 500 Index declined 9.40% versus a decline of 3.39% for the non-payers. The once reliable financial sector contributed to the poor performance...
- External links 2009-02-10
- S&P 500 Financial Sector Approaches November Lows
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: It's hard to believe, but even after the Financial sector's 50%+ rally since March 6th, it is still marginally below its closing low of 2008 on November 20th. As shown below, the sector is currently at levels that have the potential to...
- External links 2009-03-19
- INDIAN BANKS' LOAN QUALITY TO IMPROVE, RISK PROFILE EASE: S&P.
- NEW DELHI, Aug 5 Asia Pulse - Upbeat on India's financial sector reforms, global credit rating agency Standard and Poor's today said the banks' loan quality is expected to improve and risk profile has "eased" gradually due to focus ... NEW DELHI, Aug 5 Asia...
- Research articles 2004-08-05
- Financial Sector Check-Up: Was The July Rally a Farce?
- The LFB submits: The S&P rallied just over 9.4% from the July 15 low on 1200.95 to the high made August 11 on 1313.13. The market may now be asking itself whether it was ever a sustainable rally. Putting two articles together, one from the Wall Street Journal and one...
- External links 2008-08-21
- Dividend Contribution by Sector for the S&P 500 Index
- David I. Templeton submits: Probably not much of a surprise, but dividends paid by companies in the financial sector of the S&P 500 Index now account for only 9.08% of the index's total dividends. This is down from nearly 30% for the year ending December 2007. The leading contributor...
- External links 2009-06-02
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