{"id":103988,"date":"2025-12-31T08:10:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/why-2026-could-be-a-banner-year-for-regional-bank-stocks\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:10:46","slug":"why-2026-could-be-a-banner-year-for-regional-bank-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/why-2026-could-be-a-banner-year-for-regional-bank-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 2026 could be a banner year for regional-bank stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-82523058\" \/><br \/>A steepening yield curve, a looser regulatory environment and increasing M&amp;A activity all bode well, according to Catherine Mealor of KBW.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/why-2026-could-be-a-banner-year-for-regional-bank-stocks-7306c7c0?mod=mw_rss_topstories\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A steepening yield curve, a looser regulatory environment and increasing M&amp;A activity all bode well, according to Catherine Mealor of KBW. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}