08:48 AM EDT, 06/18/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Financial stocks were leaning lower pre-bell Tuesday, with the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF) down 0.1% recently.

The Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3X Shares (FAS) was down 0.4%, and bearish counterpart Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (FAZ) was unchanged.

Blackstone (BX) bid more than a 275 billion yen ($1.74 billion) to acquire Japanese digital comic provider Infocom, multiple media outlets reported, citing Infocom. Blackstone was almost 1% lower premarket.