Financial stocks advanced 0.3% on Wall Street on Thursday morning.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 0.6%, the Nasdaq was up 0.7% and the S&P 500 climbed 0.6%.
Some of the biggest gainers among financial stocks include:
- Credit Suisse Group (CS): CS stock is up 8.9% today.
- National Bank of Greece Sa (NBG): NBG stock is up 6.4% today.
- First American Corp (FAF): FAF stock is up 4.6% today.
- Alliance Capital Management L.P. (AB): AB stock is up 3.5% today.
- ING Group N.V. (ING): ING stock is up 3.6% today.
- Bgc Partners (BGCP): BGCP stock is up 3.6% today.
- Fifth Street Finance Corp (FSC): FSC stock is up 2.9% today.
- Banco Santander Brasil Sa (BSBR): BSBR stock is up 2.6% today.
- Deutsche Bank Ag (DB): DB stock is up 3.0% today.
- Banco Bilbao Viscaya Argentaria S.A. (BBVA): BBVA stock is up 2.9% today.
Some of the biggest losers among financial stocks include:
- American Express Company (AXP): AXP stock is down 6.3% today.
- Och-Ziff Capital Management (OZM): OZM stock is down 4.5% today.
- Sun Life Financial Inc (SLF): SLF stock is down 3.8% today.
- Radian Group Inc (RDN): RDN stock is down 3.1% today.
- Manulife Financial Corp (MFC): MFC stock is down 2.4% today.
- Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd (SHG): SHG stock is down 2.2% today.
- Apollo Global Management Llc C (APO): APO stock is down 1.8% today.
- The Navigators Group (NAVG): NAVG stock is down 1.7% today.
- Primerica Inc (PRI): PRI stock is down 1.6% today.
- Bankrate Inc (RATE): RATE stock is down 1.5% 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.
