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The SPDR S&P Bank ETF (NYSE: KBE) is down 18.6% year-to-date, only slightly outperforming the S&P 500 as a whole. Rising interest rates are typically good news for bank earnings, but the weakness in bank stocks as of late has been driven by concerns over a potential slowdown in the…

Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s (NYSE: GS) stock could outperform other banking stocks, with a worsening economic backdrop adversely impacting the earnings of “the balance sheet lending heavy peers,” according to BofA Securities.

After more than a decade of growth stocks outperforming value stocks, that trend has reversed in the past year.

Shares of big bank stock Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) are down 16.6% year-to-date and 27% overall in the past year. Given the bank's relatively solid first-quarter earnings report last week, one Citigroup analyst said Sunday that the negative investor sentiment surrounding Citigroup may have finally peaked.