Ares Management Corp. ARES, +3.78% stock was up 1.5% on Tuesday after beating its second-quarter earnings target, despite losses in financial stocks. Ares reported an adjusted profit of 90 cents a share, ahead of the analyst target of 85 cents a share, according to FactSet data. The company also said funds managed by its credit group closed about $4.1 billion in U.S. direct lending commitments across 51 transactions during the second quarter. In the year-ago quarter, Ares closed about $5.9 billion in U.S. direct lending commitments across 58 transactions. Meanwhile, the financial Select SPDR ETF XLF, -0.17% is down 0.4% and the SPDR S&P Bank ETF KBE, -1.48% is lower by about 2.1%.
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