financials ETFs

Among sector exchange-traded funds, the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLF) gets plenty of notoriety. Those are the breaks for the largest ETF tracking the financial services sector, which is now the third-largest sector weight in the S&P 500 following the separation of real estate...

Broadly speaking, big-name holdings in financial services exchange-traded funds, such as the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLF), delivered solid third-quarter earnings reports. Amid election year uncertainty and ongoing speculation about the timing of a rate hike from the Federal Reserve...

One of the more interesting events, at least for indexing nerds, recently occurred when the separation of real estate stocks from the financial services sector sparked the creation of an eleventh S&P 500 sector. So these days the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLF), the largest...

The financial services has been duly criticized this year for being a laggard in the face of still low interest rates, but the second-largest sector allocation in the S&P 500 has recently been improving. Over the past 90 days, the PowerShares KBW Bank Portfolio ETF (NYSE: KBWB) is up 5.4...

Fed fund futures now say traders are paring bets that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates later this month; but in August, inflows to financial services exchange-traded funds indicated otherwise. Financial services, the S&P 500's second-largest sector allocation behind technology...

India exchange-traded funds are lagging broader emerging markets indexes year-to-date, but that does not mean there is not momentum for the India trade. For example, the WisdomTree India Earnings Fund (ETF) (NYSE: EPI), one of the largest India ETFs trading in New York, is up an admirable 13.4...

It has been said throughout much of this year that the financial services sector, the second-largest sector weight in the S&P 500, has been a disappointment as the Federal Reserve has held off on raising interest rates. Still, traditional, diversified financial services exchange traded funds...

There are plenty of financial services exchange-traded funds on the market today. The same goes for healthcare ETFs. After all, financial services and healthcare are the S&P 500's second- and third-largest sector weights, respectively. However, many traditional financial services and...