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With tech eating 38% of the market, widespread panic over private credit headlines actually creates a perfect contrarian setup to scoop up financial stocks.
Banks and financials are cheap and on the receiving side of fiscal deficits, a value dividend play
Financials stay weak below a downward-pointing 200-day, no reason to buy the dip
Higher oil and inflation crush consumer demand, so financials and small caps face credit problems
Financials face severe earnings cuts from software disruption and credit stress; possible short cover rally if reserves not taken
Financials broke below a downward-sloping 200-day, the worst sector, and the S&P always follows them down
Financials breaking and turning down below their 200-day flag tightening conditions, pulling the sector lower.
Financials break down as software credit contagion spreads from equity into private credit into bank stocks
Short financials as a credit canary; they should lead in a PMI boom but are falling.