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Financials across regions

Banks, insurance, capital markets, financial services. Sensitive to rate-curve shape and credit spreads.

Snapshot Jul 13, 2026 · 4 regions × 11 sectors · refreshed daily.

Global region-weighted

 

Top region for this sector

 

Bottom region for this sector

 

Financials across 4 regions

Same sector, four geographies, four windows. Source ETF per region noted.

Region 5d 1m 3m YTD Source

Cross-region spreads — Financials only

All six region-pair spreads on the selected window for this sector. Strongest absolute spread first.

Diary view, not advice. Methodology in methodology.md. Back to the global heatmap.

Financials across the four regions

Banks, insurance, capital markets, financial services. Sensitive to rate-curve shape and credit spreads. The same sector rarely behaves the same way twice across regions — the spread between the best and worst region is the tradable information, and the table below is the current state of that spread.

Financials — region returns · snapshot 2026-07-13 · refreshed daily
Region5d1m3mYTDVehicleConfidence
Asia-Pac DM+1.7%+8.0%+19.3%+36.8% 1631.TSE+1632.TSE (approx.)high
Europe-1.5%+1.4%+6.7%+13.9% EXV1.XETRA+EXV6.XETRA+EXH8.XETRA (approx.)high
Emerging Markets-2.1%+0.6%+1.1%+5.7% EM:CN+TW+IN+KR+BR+SA+MX+ZA+ID+TH+MY+OTHER (approx.)medium
US-0.1%+7.7%+10.8%+3.0% XLFhigh

Rows sorted by YTD. The vehicle column names the tracker each cell is measured from — common vehicles for this exposure, listed for education, not recommendation. Cells flagged "approx." are built from the country-weighted approximation described in the methodology. closelook.net is an investment research diary.