RPT-Wall St Week Ahead-Earnings season to test surge in regional banks stocks
A blistering rally in the shares of regional banks may be tested when a spate of lenders report results in the coming week. Regional banks in the S&P; 500 have surged 11% since the beginning of the year, beating out the gains in larger, more diversified banks by about a percentage point over the same period. Both regional and diversified banks are running well ahead of the benchmark S&P; 500, buoyed by a rise in Treasury yields to their highest levels since the pandemi