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Financials Sector: News Highlight, Sentiment and Fundamentals
Mon. Sep 29, 2025

The price action of Financials (XLF) sector is shaped by numerous forces, ranging from broad macroeconomic trends to company-specific performance and market structure. The overall sentiment for Financials sector is very positive (overall 1.3, positive 2.1, negative -0.8) on 20250929. The forces of Price Level (2), Option Speculation (1.5), Sentiment towards Fundamentals (0.5), Sector Price Trend (0.2), and Broad Market Trend (-0.6) will drive up the price. The forces of Valuation Sentiment (-1), and Market Risk Prefrence (0) will drive down the price.

'Buy the dips' is the preferred trading strategy. Hourly SMA 20 trend line is likely to provide a support from any pullbacks.

The sentiment for Broad Market Trend is calculated based on SPY trend. The sentiment for Sector Price Trend is calculated based on XLF trend. The sentiment for Option Speculation is calculated from put/call ratio. The Risk Prefrence is calculated from Bitcoin price trend. Price Level sentiment is positive when oversold, and negative when overbought. Valuation Sentiment, and Sentimentals towards Fundamentals are extracted from headlines and market commentary. All sentiment scores are normalized on a -10 - +10 scale.


DateAttentionAverage
Attention
PricePrice
Level
ChangeSMA10
Trend
Market
Sentiment
Trend
Sentiment
FundamentalsNews
Sentiment
2025-09-292%      0.6%      54.12      80      0.49%      0.19%      0.2      0.2      0.5      5.4     
2025-09-281%      0.3%      -0.2      -0.1      0.1      7     
2025-09-270%      0.4%      -0.1      -0.1      0.2      0     
2025-09-261%      0.6%      53.85      61      0.69%      0%      -0.3      -0.1      -0.2      4     
2025-09-250%      0.4%      53.48      34      -0.24%      -0.19%      -0.5      -0.2      -0.4      0.5     
2025-09-240%      0.4%      53.61      43      -0.26%      0.19%      -0      -0.3      -0.1      0     
2025-09-230%      0.4%      53.75      54      -0.44%      0%      0.5      0      0.6      7     
2025-09-220%      0.4%      53.99      71      -0.43%      0.19%      0.8      0.2      0.8      -2     
2025-09-212%      0.4%      0.7      0.1      0.8      7.5     
2025-09-201%      0.1%      0.7      0.1      0.8      -2     
 
Both emotion scores and sentiment scores are calculated in a -10 - +10 scale.
The price level reaches 100 at Bollinger upper band, and zero at lower band.

 
1 (6) TD Pledges to Cut Billions in Costs as It Restores Guidance Toronto-Dominion Bank is reinstating guidance on growth — with similar targets to those in place before a US money-laundering scandal — as it pledges to slash billions in annual costs and boost revenue through a push to attract more clients and sell them additional products. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Mon. Sep 29, 2025
2 (7) Fintech platform Wealthfront files for US IPO Automated digital wealth management firm Wealthfront Corporation on Monday filed for an initial public offering in the United States. In recent months, the U.S. IPO market has kicked back into action from the earlier slowdown triggered by trade policy uncertainty, with new offerings receiving considerable investor attention. Wealthfront will list on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the "WLTH" symbol. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Mon. Sep 29, 2025
3 (8) Robinhood Shares Climb 12% on Growth in Prediction-Market Trades The executive said in a post on X on Monday that Robinhood customers have now transacted more than 4 billion of such event contracts, 2 billion of which were in the third quarter alone. Betting on prediction markets came to prominence during the 2024 US presidential election, when platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket facilitated millions of dollars in wagers on the outcome. Robinhood has seen it as a source of growth and the proliferation is blurring the lines between financial markets and the gambling industry. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Mon. Sep 29, 2025
4 (2) Exclusive-Switzerland and UBS could compromise on capital rules, sources say ZURICH (Reuters) -Switzerland and UBS are signalling in private a willingness to compromise on capital rules, potentially paving the way for parliament to settle on lower requirements acceptable to the government and the bank, according to people familiar with the situation. UBS has strongly criticised the government's proposed rules - unveiled in June to make the country's banks safer following the 2023 collapse of Credit Suisse - because they would require it to hold $24 billion in additional capital. One person familiar with the government's thinking told Reuters that Bern could be willing to accept rules that would likely lower the additional capital burden to somewhere around $15 billion. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Mon. Sep 29, 2025
5 (6) TD bank reinstates medium term growth target, focuses on high fee segments TORONTO (Reuters) -TD Bank on Monday forecast return on equity of about 16% for the next four years, reinstating a growth target it suspended in December as it recovered from a historic $3 billion fine in the United States for anti-money laundering failings. The lender said a part of its focus will be on high fee businesses such as wholesale banking and wealth management. It plans to add more wealth management advisors, U.S retail financial advisors and investment specialists. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Mon. Sep 29, 2025
 
6 (8) Goldman Strategists Turn Bullish on Stocks as Recession Risk Low The team including Christian Mueller-Glissmann turned overweight on stocks over a three-month horizon, as they said the asset class typically performed well in late-cycle economic slowdowns when policy support was strong. “Good earnings growth, Fed easing without a recession and global fiscal policy easing will continue to support equities,” the team wrote in a note. (https://finance.yahoo.com/) Mon. Sep 29, 2025
7 (-2) ‘Pig butchering,’ fake friends and 8 more of the craziest financial scams that money pros have seen themselves We asked 10 financial pros to share the money scams they’ve seen — and how to prevent them from happening to you (https://www.marketwatch.com/) Mon. Sep 29, 2025
8 (8) This is the No. 1 checking account of September 2025 — and it pays upwards of 3% interest Here’s what 8 financial sites say the 10 best checking accounts are right now (https://www.marketwatch.com/) Mon. Sep 29, 2025
9 (7) JPMorgan Investor Trip Pitches Mideast Energy Pivot to Clients JPMorgan Chase & Co. is giving a group of its clients front-row access to the energy transition that’s underway in the Gulf states, as the region’s efforts to pivot away from fossil-fuel dependence generate growing investor interest. (https://www.bloomberg.com/) Sun. Sep 28, 2025


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