State Street

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Financial services stocks and the related exchange traded funds tumbled last week. The Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF), the largest ETF devoted to the sector, and the bank-specific SPDR S&P Bank ETF (NYSE: KBE) fell 2.7 percent and 1.1 percent, respectively. Still, those two ETFs and...

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) recently upgraded shares of Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE: BCS) by two notches from Underperform to Buy. BofA Merrill Lynch cited the underperformance of Barclays' shares and depressed earnings expectations as the reason for its improved assessment. Financial firms are...

Investors looking to add gold to their holdings have few options. They can buy physical gold bars and store it in their homes, but a more convenient option would be to buy an exchange traded fund that closely mirrors the day-to-day fluctuations of gold prices. State Street's gold managed ETF,...

State Street Corp (NYSE: STT), a provider of a range of financial products and services to investors, was added to Goldman Sachs' "Americas Conviction List" amid three compelling upcoming catalysts. Goldman Sachs' Alexander Blostein also maintains a Buy rating on State Street's stock with a price...

The cover story in this weekend's Barron's features the results of the latest ranking of the best mutual fund families. The past year was full of changes for the mutual fund industry. Other featured articles include more on mutual funds and Barron's latest picks and pans. In...

After several years of lagging their large-cap counterparts, smaller stocks broke out last year to offer significant out-performance of their larger rivals. For example, the Russell 2000 and the S&P SmallCap 600 Index returned 21.6 percent and 26.6 percent, respectively, in 2016 compared to a...

As has been well-documented, financial services sector has been thriving since Donald Trump's surprising victory in the November U.S. presidential election. Since November 9, the first trading day after Election Day, the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLF), the largest exchange-traded...

Oil was one of 2016's best-performing commodities and that was, predictably, a boon for the energy sector and the relevant exchange-traded funds. The energy sector was the top group in the S&P 500 in 2016; the Energy Select Sector SPDR (ETF) (NYSE: XLE), the largest equity-based energy ETF...

Investors continued pouring assets into exchange-traded funds last year, sending global ETF assets under management to another all-time on the heels of record asset gathering of $375 billion. Predictably, those trends benefit the largest ETF issuers, including BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK)'s iShares...

The Federal Reserve's two-day meeting, its last of 2016, concludes Wednesday, and if the Fed funds futures market is accurate, it would be stunning if the U.S. central bank did raise interest rates. November was unkind to bonds and fixed-income exchange-traded funds. In fact, data suggest short...

Of the various hot trades within the fixed income universe this year, the influx of new money to Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS, has been particularly noticeable. This year is something of a perfect storm for TIPS. Inflation is an increasingly important topic for the Federal...

So many new exchange-traded funds, so little time. That is a reasonable sentiment, as hundreds of new ETFs come to market every year. 2016 is no exception to that rule. Among this year's crop of new ETFs proving to be worth investors' time is the SPDR Series Trust SPDR SSGA Gender...

With bond markets increasingly pricing in higher odds that the Federal Reserve will boost interest rates, it is not surprising that investors are departing corporate bond exchange-traded funds this quarter. In the current quarter, three of the six worst ETFs in terms of assets lost are corporate...

After spending considerable time as one of this year's hottest exchange-traded funds, the SPDR Gold Trust (ETF) (NYSE: GLD), the world's largest ETF backed by physical holdings of gold, has retreated 5.5 percent over the past month. Not surprisingly, much has been made of this decline....