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Sector Update: Financial Stocks Retreat Thursday Afternoon

BY MT Newswires | TREASURY | 10/09/25 01:51 PM EDT

01:51 PM EDT, 10/09/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Financial stocks fell in Thursday afternoon trading, with the NYSE Financial Index shedding 0.9% and the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF) down 0.4%.

The Philadelphia Housing Index declined 2.3%, and the Real Estate Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLRE) lost 0.4%.

Bitcoin (BTC-USD) fell 2.6% to $120,582, and the yield for 10-year US Treasuries rose 1.5 basis points to 4.15%.

In corporate news, Citigroup (C) declined an acquisition offer from Grupo Mexico to buy its Grupo Financiero Banamex business. Citigroup (C) shares were shedding 0.6%.

HSBC (HSBC) said the company and its subsidiary, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bankin,g have proposed to take over and privatize Hang Seng Bank in a deal valuing the company at 290 billion Hong Kong dollars ($37.27 billion). HSBC (HSBC) shares were falling nearly 6%.

Affirm (AFRM) shares rose 2.2% after the company said it and Alphabet's (GOOG) Google extended their partnership on Google's Agent Payments Protocol, an open, payment-agnostic protocol designed to back agent-led payments across platforms.

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