Shares of banks and other financial institutions rose as concerns about regional banks subsided.

New York Community Bancorp rose by more than 5%.

Pacific Northwest bank Columbia Banking System and Valley National Bancorp, two more banks hard hit by fears that volatile bond yields and commercial-property busts would cause another round of failures, also recouped some of their recent losses.


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