Financial stocks advanced broadly on Wall Street on Wednesday morning, with the sector seeing an overall increase of 1.0%.

More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 0.7%, the Nasdaq rose 0.7% and the S&P 500 was up 0.7%.

Some of the biggest gainers among financial stocks include:

• Hcc Insurance Holdings (HCC): HCC stock is up 35.9% today and up 34.0% in the last month.

• Wisdomtree Invstmnts (WETF): WETF stock is up 5.9% today.

• Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd (SHG): SHG stock is up 4.0% today.

• Itau Unibanco Banco Holding Sa (ITUB): ITUB stock is up 3.6% today.

• Banco Bradesco Sa (BBD): BBD stock is up 3.9% today.

• KB Financial Group Inc (KB): KB stock is up 3.5% today.

• Fleetcor Technologies (FLT): FLT stock is up 3.2% today.

• Sun Life Financial Inc (SLF): SLF stock is up 2.8% today.

• UBS Ag Ordinary Shares When Iss (UBS): UBS stock is up 2.6% today.

• Bancolombia S.A. (CIB): CIB stock is up 3.5% today.

Some of the biggest losers among financial stocks include:

• National Bank of Greece Sa (NBG): NBG stock is down 4.0% today.

• China Life Insurance Company Limited (LFC): LFC stock is down 1.1% today and down 70.9% in the last month.

• Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN): CFFN stock is down 1.3% today.

• Apollo Global Management Llc C (APO): APO stock is down 0.4% today.

• Legg Mason Inc (LM): LM stock is down 0.3% today.

• Eaton Vance Limited Duration (EVV): EVV stock is down 0.5% today.

• Blackrock Preferred (BTZ): BTZ stock is down 0.4% today.

• Balckrock Build America Trust (BBN): BBN stock is down 0.1% today.

• Annaly Capital Management Inc (NLY): NLY stock is down 0.1% 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.