Financial stocks advanced 0.4% on Wall Street on Thursday morning.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3%, the Nasdaq increased 0.5% and the S&P 500 pushed 0.3% higher.
Some of the biggest gainers among financial stocks include:
- Texas Pacific Land Trust (TPL): TPL stock is up 5.0% today and up 26.1% in the last month.
- National Bank of Greece Sa (NBG): NBG stock is up 3.2% today.
- China Life Insurance Company Limited (LFC): LFC stock is up 2.6%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Governor and Company of The Bank of Ireland (IRE): IRE stock is up 1.7%, marking the fourth consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Banco Bilbao Viscaya Argentaria S.A. (BBVA): BBVA stock is up 2.0%, marking the fourth consecutive day the stock has increased.
- United Community Banks (UCBI): UCBI stock is up 1.9% today.
- E*Trade Financial Corp (ETFC): ETFC stock is up 1.1% today.
- Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP): PNFP stock is up 1.0% today.
- Kcg Holdings Inc (KCG): KCG stock is up 1.2% today.
- Firstmerit Corp (FMER): FMER stock is up 1.2% today.
Some of the biggest losers among financial stocks include:
- Banco Macro S.A. (BMA): BMA stock is down 1.7% today.
- Banco Bradesco Sa (BBD): BBD stock is down 1.5% today.
- Nationstar Mortgage Holdngs I (NSM): NSM stock is down 1.3% today.
- Bbva Banco Frances S.A. (BFR): BFR stock is down 1.2% today.
- Itau Unibanco Banco Holding Sa (ITUB): ITUB stock is down 1.1% today.
- KB Financial Group Inc (KB): KB stock is down 1.0% today.
- Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd (SHG): SHG stock is down 0.9% today.
- Credit Acceptance Corp (CACC): CACC stock is down 0.9% today.
- Amtrust Financial Services (AFSI): AFSI stock is down 0.9% today.
- Mizuho Financial Group (MFG): MFG stock is down 0.8% today.
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Editor’s Note: Returns for the fastest-moving stocks listed here are based on share prices 20 minutes prior to publication of this story.
