Even though the stock market has rebounded to a gain of about 1%, the financial sector has struggled to follow it. Financials did managed to poke back into positive territory recently, but they have since slipped back to the flat line. The sector continues to be hampered by bank stocks, especially diversified banks and financial services stocks. Weakness among banks comes as some question just how fundamentally sound the institutions are and just how well they could sustain any kind of double-dip recession.