Financial stocks rose 0.7% on Wall Street on Monday morning.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 0.2%, the Nasdaq was up 0.4% and the S&P 500 pushed 0.2% higher.
Some of the biggest gainers among financial stocks include:
- Platinum Underwriters Holdings Ltd (PTP): PTP stock is up 18.8%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Noah Holdings Ltd (NOAH): NOAH stock is up 5.6%, marking the fourth consecutive day the stock has increased.
- China Life Insurance Company Limited (LFC): LFC stock is up 4.3% today.
- Banco Santander (SAN): SAN stock is up 3.5% today.
- Royal Bank Scotland Group Plc (RBS): RBS stock is up 2.8% today.
- Deutsche Bank Ag (DB): DB stock is up 2.7% today.
- Amtrust Financial Services (AFSI): AFSI stock is up 2.4% today.
- Och-Ziff Capital Management (OZM): OZM stock is up 2.5% today.
- Banco Bilbao Viscaya Argentaria S.A. (BBVA): BBVA stock is up 1.9% today.
- Banco Macro S.A. (BMA): BMA stock is up 3.0% today.
Some of the biggest losers among financial stocks include:
- Renaissancere Holdings Ltd (RNR): RNR stock is down 4.2% today.
- Itau Unibanco Banco Holding Sa (ITUB): ITUB stock is down 3.5% today.
- Banco Bradesco Sa (BBD): BBD stock is down 2.6% today.
- Aviva Plc (AV): AV stock is down 2.0%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Ocwen Financial Corp (OCN): OCN stock is down 1.9% today.
- Corpbanca (BCA): BCA stock is down 1.7% today.
- Home Loan Servicing Solutions (HLSS): HLSS stock is down 1.6% today.
- Credit Acceptance Corp (CACC): CACC stock is down 0.9%, marking the fourth consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Westpac Banking Corp (WBK): WBK stock is down 1.0% today.
- Kayne Anderson Energy Total Return Fund (KYE): KYE 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.
