今天有bank stress test results.
The Fed examines the health of the balance sheets of the biggest financial companies every year to ensure that they have enough capital to withstand a shock to the system like the ones that brought down a number of banks during the 2007-09 financial crisis.
“(Stress test results) could be a catalyst for a day or two but it’ll still come back to the main driver, which is going to be the yield curve and loan growth, which has been OK but nothing to write home about,” said Samana.
Bank profits are boosted by a steepening yield curve, when the gap widens between short-dated Treasury yields and long-dated Treasury yields. Banks profit from the difference between short-term rates, which determine their borrowing costs, and long-term rates, which affect how much they can charge for loans such as mortgages.
"On June 29 last year, after banks released their capital plans following the stress test, the S&P 500 bank index .SPXBK ended the day 1.8 percent higher."
