Notably, financial stocks have been going through a rough patch with Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF XLF and SPDR S&P Bank ETF KBE losing about 3% and 4.1%, respectively, last week (read: Fearing an Inverted Yield Curve? Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF): ETF Research Reports With the Fed rate hikes likely to be aggressive in the coming days on mounting inflation and uncertainties prevailing due to the Russia-Ukraine war, investors piled into value investing.