The Ratings Game: Two things that could lift bank stocks? A dovish Fed, and ‘a week and weekend with no more U.S. bank failures,’ analyst says

Earlier this week, bank stocks were ailing, after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank and growing concern over First Republic Bank and Credit Suisse. A possible cure, some analysts say? A fix for Credit Suisse, a lighter touch from the Federal Reserve on monetary policy, and just a single “week and weekend” without another U.S. bank failing.

Those analysts, at UBS, said in a research note on Thursday that the large banks that they follow remain on solid footing, with ultimately “nothing to see here,”…