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Wall Street has been on choppy ride since the start of 2022 on rising rate worries. Still, investors poured money into stocks, both U.S. and developed market.

Synchrony Financial reported Friday fourth-quarter profit that matched expectations while net interest income rose above forecasts, boosted by by record purchase volume and loan growth across all sales platforms. The consumer financial services company''s stock was still inactive in premarket trading. Net income rose to $803 million, or $1.48 a share, from $728 million, or $1.24 a share, in the year-ago period. The results included a per-share 14 cent post-tax benefit of 14 cents due to reserve reductions. The FactSet consensus for earnings per share was $1.48. Net interest income grew 4.7% to $3.83 billion, above the FactSet consensus of $3.74 billion, as net interest margin of 15.77% topped expectations of 15.45%. Purchase volume increased 18% to $47.1 billion and loans grew 4% to $85.1 billion. New accounts increased 20% to 7.3 million. The stock has lost 5.2% over the past three months, while the SPDR Financial Select Sector ETF has declined 5.4% and the S&P 500 has dropped 5.9%. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move.

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JPMorgan: Not Enough Capitulation To Call A Bottom One day (and one week and one month ) after JPM called again to buy the dip, at least one group inside the largest US bank - arguably the most important one - is getting cold feet on a quick bounce. As the bank''s trading desk writes this morning, while stocks reacted poorly to Powell''s unexpectedly hawkish comments, interestingly retail investors bought $1.69bn on the day: " this is the second most on record." This is a problem because it means that the market still refuses to capitulate and signal an all clear (see more below). And while retail investors stubbornly continue to buy the dip, JPM also notes that it is still the case that "we hadn’t seen consistent signs of capitulation by HFs" and adds that it seems that there’s an impulse to buy the dip recently among a broad set of discretionary investors. "Given how much the market has declined recently, it does seem like we could see a bounce, but whether this is a sustainable rebound remains to be seen in our view." Here are JPMorgan Prime''s key points on recent flows: HF Flows – dip buying on Mon and Tues, post large selling on Fri: HFs bought the dip on Mon and Tues (just under +1z globally both days) Notionally, the biggest buying was in N.

The Fed is likely to hike rates in March with more hikes in the cards. These sectors are likely to benefit from rising rates.

Financial Sector ETF XLF Continues To Present Opportunities

Most of the U.S. big banks came up with mixed results in the ongoing earnings reporting season. However, rising rate trends should bode well for the financial ETFs.

Here are a number of strategies that could prove extremely beneficial for ETF investors in a rising rate environment.

Trading revenues among Wall Street banks surged during the height of the trading spree amidst the heightened volatility during the pandemic recovery. However, financial sector-related exchange traded

There's something happening that could propel banks higher this year.

Todd Gordon, founder of Inside Edge Capital and CNBC contributor, and CNBC's Wilfred Frost, join "The Exchange" to react to bank earnings and the outlook for the sector. For access to live and exclusi

Financial stocks generally perform well when economic momentum is strong. Currently, the economic momentum is declining based on an objective measure of income, sales, consumption, and production.

abrdn Senior Bank Analyst and Portfolio Manager Jon Curran joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss three inflection points for the financial sector, fourth quarter earnings for Goldman Sachs, and the outl

Yahoo Finance's Jared Blikre gives an overview of bank stocks and how the markets opened this morning amid new earnings reports.

Bank ETFs should gain on the rising rates trend even if Q4 earnings results do not come in extremely impressive.