{"id":27,"date":"2026-07-13T08:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:04:35","slug":"banks-and-insurers-extend-hot-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Banks and Insurers Extend Hot Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Financial stocks kept climbing this week, with several bank and insurance ETFs touching record highs ahead of big bank earnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bank Index Outpaces the Market<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The KBW Nasdaq Bank Index has risen roughly 20% between late March and late June, comfortably beating the broader market&#8217;s 13% gain over the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Insurers Also Hitting Highs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Insurance names including Chubb, Travelers, Aflac, MetLife, and Allstate reached 52-week highs, alongside bank stocks like Bank of America, US Bancorp, and BNY Mellon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some Warn the Rally Looks Stretched<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technical indicators show the sector&#8217;s momentum reading well into overbought territory, its highest level in roughly two years, raising questions about how much further the run can go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bulls See More Room to Run<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo argues the rally isn&#8217;t over yet, pointing to record capital-markets activity, accelerating commercial loan growth, strong credit quality, and deregulation as tailwinds heading into earnings season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial stocks kept climbing this week, with several bank and insurance ETFs touching record highs ahead of big bank earnings. Bank Index Outpaces the Market The KBW Nasdaq Bank Index&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usastocksguru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}