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Citigroup Inc. said Monday its Citi Commercial Bank plans to hire 400 commercial bankers as part of a 900-person increase in staffing to the business unit that serves mid-sized companies in more than 60 countries. Citi said it''s focusing on multinational enterprises including clients with annual revenue of $10 million to $3 billion in the U.S., China, Brazil, India and countries in Western Europe. Tasnim Ghiawadwala, global head, Citi Commercial Bank, said the bank offers clients "global connectivity and institutional expertise across working capital management and strategic capital market offerings." Shares of Citi rose fractionally in pre-market trades. The stock is down 8% in 2022, compared to a drop of 11.9% by the S&P 500 and a dip of 8.1% by the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF XLF . Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

Bank of America Corp. said its 67 million clients made $294 billion in payments in February, up 16% over the year-ago period. "Strong spending trends across a variety of sectors such as travel, restaurants, public transportation and gym memberships suggest more consumers are returning to the office and resuming more in-person activities," said Mary Hines Droesch, head of consumer and small business products at Bank of America. Combined credit and debit card spending rose 21% to $63 billion. Bank of America client deposits rose 15% to $1.4 trillion. Shares of Bank of America rose 0.4% in premarket trades. The stock is down 13.8% this year, compared to a dip of 11.9% by the S&P 500 and a drop of 8.1% by the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF . Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

As the broader market has seen a massive run-up over the last decade, financials have lagged.

Two Banks Are Telling Their Clients To Ignore The Turmoil And Just BTFD: Here''s Why At a time when risk sentiment has foundered, BTFD has mutated into STFR, and even retail investors are hedging for a crash by buying puts in record amounts… ... two banks are throwing caution to the wind and staking their reputation that this time the rout is finally ending and the bottom is in. The first one is Citi (the same Citi which yesterday closed its short oil reco from Feb 3 after suffering a painful 11% loss in just one month, which for levered traders could mean a year''s worth of performance wiped out), and which today said that it is raising "US equities and the global IT sector" - i.e., growth names - back to Overweight. As the bank''s chief strategist, Robert Buckland notes, "both are Growth trades that should benefit, in relative terms at least, from the recent sharp drop in real yields" to wit: Equity markets have been less quick to price in the drop in real yields. We have frequently highlighted that these have been a big driver of the global Value/Growth trade in recent years (Figure 6).

State Street's job as an investment manager is to get you from point A to point B with as little pain as possible, and hopefully, plenty of assets in your retirement portfolio. And to its credit, many

Danny Moses, Moses Ventures founder, on whether there's a systemic problem in the banks. With CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders, Dan Nathan, Karen Finerman, Tim Seymour and Pete Najarian.

U.S. stock markets and exchange traded funds aren't completely immune to the goings-on in Russia. For example, financial and bank sector-related exchange traded funds are getting dinged by Citigroup I

U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Money Markets See Second Weekly Inflow Of 2022 As Equity Funds Post Lowest Weekly Performance In 102 Weeks

Financial stocks suffered a broad beating Thursday, as Russia''s invasion of Ukraine sparked a flight to safety that sent Treasury prices higher and yields lower. The SPDR Financial Select Sector ETF sank 3.8% in premarket trading toward a five-month low, with only one of 67 equity components gaining ground, while futures for the S&P 500 dove 2.6% toward a nine-month low. Among the ETF''s more-active components, shares of Bank of America Corp. dropped 5.1%, Wells Fargo & Co. slid 4.8%, Citigroup Inc. shed 5.1%, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. fell 4.0%, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lost 4.0% and Warren Buffett''s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. declined 2.8%. The lone gainer in the ETF was CBOE Global Markets Inc.''s stock , which rose 3.0% as the invasion was seen as boosting market volatility. Meanwhile, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note slumped 11 basis points to 1.866%. Falling longer-term interest rates can crimp bank earnings, as it narrows the spread banks earn on longer-term assets, such as loans, that are funded by shorter-term liabilities.

For the first month in six, mutual fund investors were net redeemers of fund assets, withdrawing $176.3 billion from conventional funds for January.

Wall Street has been on choppy ride since the start of 2022 due to rising rate worries. These ETFs can be used as efficient tools to fight rising rates.

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Banks could hold off on raising interest payments on deposits if the Federal Reserve hikes rates, potentially further bolstering their bread-and-butter businesses and supporting the outlook on financi

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