A Huge Week Is Looming for Financial Sector ETFs April 13, 2021 Financial sector exchange traded funds are in for a big week as Wall Street banks kick off the first quarter earnings season. RBC Capital Markets’ Gerard Cassidy anticipates financials to exceed Wall Street expectations when they start reporting this week, CNBC reports. “The big beats are likely to come from the loan loss reserve releasing numbers,” Cassidy, RBC Capital Markets’ head of U.S. bank equity strategy, told CNBC. “Last year because of the pandemic, the banking industry set aside billions of dollars in anticipated credit losses, and the reserves for these losses weren’t used.”