Previous Close | 0.4400 |
Open | 0.5000 |
Bid | 0.3600 |
Ask | 0.3900 |
Strike | 25.00 |
Expire Date | 2025-01-17 |
Day's Range | 0.4400 - 0.5000 |
Contract Range | N/A |
Volume | |
Open Interest | 2.26k |
Rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve have created an incentive for banks to rejig their investment portfolios. Lenders that bought bonds during the near zero-interest rate era are looking to offload those securities and replace them with higher-yielding alternatives. Banks are also building capital to deal with potentially tougher scrutiny as regulators get ready to finalize the Basel III proposals, though Fed Chair Jerome Powell hinted in March the rules could be much less burdensome than the industry had previously expected.
Truist Financial said on Tuesday it has sold $27.7 billion of low-yielding investments to focus on better alternatives as part of a repositioning the lender expects will help it post higher revenue in 2024 than previously forecast. Rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve have created an incentive for banks to rejig their investment portfolios. Lenders that bought bonds during the near zero-interest rate era are looking to offload those securities and replace them with higher-yielding alternatives.
Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) today announced that it has completed the previously announced sale of its remaining stake in Truist Insurance Holdings ("TIH"), a subsidiary of Truist and the fifth largest insurance brokerage in the United States, to an investor group led by private equity firms Stone Point Capital ("Stone Point") and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice ("CD&R"). Mubadala Investment Company and other co-investors also participated in the investment.