09:07 AM EDT, 04/07/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Financial stocks were declining premarket Tuesday, with the State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF) down 0.5%.

The Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3X Shares (FAS) was 1.7% lower and its bearish counterpart Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares (FAZ) was up 1.4%.

Apollo Global Management ( APO )-backed (APO) Yahoo has started talks with lenders to refinance roughly $1.60 billion of leveraged loans, Bloomberg News reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter. Shares of Apollo Global Management ( APO ) were 0.8% lower pre-bell.