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Bank stocks and rate hikes trouble markets

Mar 10, 2023

Markets are bracing for rough weather amid rate-hike worries and instability in financial stocks. Investors should consider focusing on quality—but stay the course.

Our Top Market Takeaways for March 10, 2023.

Market thoughts

On edge
 

Are storm clouds brewing? A bank stock blowup and word of more Federal Reserve rate hikes prompted market turmoil this week. Heading into Friday, the S&P 500 has lost over -3% (on track for the worst week since December), and bond yields have swung wildly—both 2-year and 10-year Treasury yields have whipsawed some 30–40 basis points (bps).

So what happened?

1) Banks had their worst day in almost three years yesterday, erasing all of their 2023 gains. The moves are hard to overlook, given banks are often seen as a barometer for the wider economy

Banks posted their worst daily performance since 2020

Source: Bloomberg Finance L.P. Data as of March 9, 2023. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. It is not possible to invest directly in an index.
The chart shows the daily performance of the KBW Bank Index from January 2020 to March 2023. The price performance was mild at the beginning of the series until it had the largest daily increase of 14.8% on March 14, 2020, followed by the largest decline of -16.2% on March 16, 2020. It then remained relatively range-bound between -15% and 15% until this date. On March 9, 2023, it had a -7.7% daily decline, which was the largest daily decline since June 11, 2020.

The Fed’s regime of higher rates is dialing up the pressure, especially on smaller regional banks that tend to be less diversified. For months, once high-flying parts of the market that relied on easy money, such as crypto, venture capital and startups, and commercial real estate, have been under the hammer. Now, that weakness is reverberating through the banks most exposed to them.

Silicon Valley Bank, lender to tech start-ups and other VCs, saw its worst day ever as it announced its clients were withdrawing deposits. This prompted the bank to sell hoards of securities at a loss to improve its liquidity. Meanwhile, crypto-focused bank Silvergate Capital said it’s shutting down after weeks of turmoil (in large part due to outsized exposure to beleaguered FTX). And Cleveland-based Keycorp said it anticipates less net interest income as it faces tougher competition to offer attractive deposit rates.

Here’s the problem: With interest rates higher, banks are under pressure to up the ante on deposits (i.e., pay more) to keep savers in the door—if they can’t hack it, they risk their customers going elsewhere. Similarly, if times turn hard, clients might start burning through their cash too quickly, wearing down banks’ deposit base. In turn, panic about a downturn might also prompt others to yank their deposits, risking a bank run. That puts pressure on banks’ balance sheets, as securities invested when rates were low may need to be sold at a loss in order to buffer liquidity. Adding fuel to the fire, the higher rates go, the less likely businesses and consumers are to make new loans (and generate new business for banks).

All that said, the pain has been mostly felt by smaller regional banks, given their deposit bases have been quicker to flight, and their balance sheets tend to be riskier relative to larger banks.

Here’s the good news: Many of the larger, money center banks are far more diversified, more regulated and have fortress balance sheets—and thus aren’t feeling these stresses as acutely. This has left the banking sector as a whole much better capitalized today than it was during the Global Financial Crisis.

Financial sector is well capitalized

Source: IMF. Data as of June 30, 2022.
This chart shows regulatory Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets (%) in 2009 and 2022 by country: • Italy: 8.3% in 2009 and 16.1% in 2022 • Spain: 9.3% in 2009 and 14.5% in 2022 • France: 10.2% in 2009 and 16.4% in 2022 • Germany: 10.8% in 2009 and 16.6% in 2022 • United States: 11.5% in 2009 and 13.5% in 2022 • United Kingdom: 11.6% in 2009 and 17.6% in 2022

But this does underscore the impact that tighter policy can have. As interest rates rise, it becomes more difficult to borrow, invest and spend. The Fed’s next move is in acute focus, which stresses the importance of today’s U.S. jobs report (and next week’s CPI print). This brings us to the following point.

2) The Fed may keep rates higher for longer—but it all depends on just how strong the economy stays.

At his testimony on Capitol Hill this week, Chair Powell doubled down on the Fed’s commitment to cooling inflation, signaling that central bankers could take policy rates higher still and ramp up the pace of hikes—but it all depends on the data. On one hand, growth is still strong, and inflation is still sticky, which could prompt a 50-basis-point move at this month’s meeting (following the step down to 25 bps in the last few meetings). But on the other hand, there were promising signs in today’s jobs report that suggest upping the pace might not be needed after all.

Today’s jobs report showed that the U.S. economy added another 311,000 jobs (following January’s blockbuster 504,000), in a sign that the economy is still strong. But the Fed did get a few encouraging signs that it’s getting closer to getting its job done—the unemployment rate rose to 3.6% (from 3.4%), and wage growth was cooler than expected (at 4.6% year-over-year). While still a mixed reading overall, it may go to taking some of the edge off.

The jury is still out on the Fed’s next move at its March meeting, but the more it has to hike, the greater the potential hit to the economy—and the greater risk of recession.

Where to go from here:

So far this year, markets have quickly flitted between soft, no, and hard landing. Late cycle comes with transitions, and defensive positioning and diversification have historically been a good defense.

Bonds can provide crucial protection. The swift move lower in yields yesterday reminds us of the shield bonds can provide as the growth outlook worsens. We continue to focus on high-quality, investment grade credit. And while banks overall make up roughly 25% of the U.S. investment grade market, regional domestic banks account for just 1.5% of the universe.

Further, this is why we’ve been focused on parts of the equity market that are higher quality in nature, backed by more secular growth and/or that can offer better relative value—for instance, healthcare and industrials rather than financials in the United States, as well as Europe and China. Strategies such as structured notes can also offer downside protection and help to protect gains.

Above all, stick with your investment plan. While markets can always have a bad day, week, month or even year, history suggests investors are less likely to suffer losses over longer periods—especially in a diversified portfolio.

Long term returns have been less volatile

Sources: Barclays, FactSet, Federal Reserve, Robert Shiller, Strategas/Ibbotson, J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Returns shown are rolling monthly returns from 1950 to 2022. Stocks represent the S&P 500 Shiller Composite, and Bonds represent Strategas/Ibbotson government bonds for periods from 1950 to 2017, then Bloomberg Finance L.P. Barclays U.S. Treasury Total Return index from 2017 to 2022. 50/50 portfolio is rebalanced monthly and assumes no cost.. Analysis is based on the J.P. Morgan Guide to the Markets – Principles for Successful Long-term Investing. *Actual worst 5-year rolling return of hypothetical 50/50 portfolio: -0.068%. Data as of December 31, 2022. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. It is not possible to invest directly in an index.
This chart shows rolling annualized total returns from 1950 until 2022, on a 1-year, 5-year rolling, 10-year rolling and 20-year rolling basis, for stocks, bonds and 50/50 portfolio. 1-year rolling annualized returns: • Stocks: Range of 60% to -41% with an average of 12.5% • Bonds: Range of 39% to -15% with an average of 6.1% • 50/50 portfolio: Range of 47% to -21% with an average of 9.1% 5-year rolling annualized returns: • Stocks: Range of 30% to -6% with an average of 11.5% • Bonds: Range of 22% to 0% with an average of 6.0% • 50/50 portfolio: Range of 23% to 0% with an average of 8.9% 10-year rolling annualized returns: • Stocks: Range of 21% to -4% with an average of 11.4% • Bonds: Range of 15% to 1% with an average of 5.9% • 50/50 portfolio: Range of 8.8% to 0% with an average of 8.8% 20-year rolling annualized returns: • Stocks: Range of 18% to 5% with an average of 11.1% • Bonds: Range of 12% to 2% with an average of 5.8% • 50/50 portfolio: Range of 14% to 5% with an average of 8.7%

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The KBW Bank Index is a modified cap-weighted index consisting of 24 exchange-listed National Market System stocks, representing national money center banks and leading regional institutions.

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