This is John Waggoner's latest newspaper column, published June 18, 1999.
Investors can bet on bank stocks People love to hate banks.
All of those may be good reasons to love bank stocks, which have been clobbered recently. Because, as rotten as they can be for consumers, banks look pretty good for investors. And if you decide to invest through a financial services mutual fund, you also get some other sectors investors have shunned lately, such as brokers and insurers. Other financial sectors have lagged, too. After all, financial services stocks have been one of the great engines of the bull market.