Apr 25th, 2009 - Houston Chronicle
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WASHINGTON - After weeks of speculation, regulators led by the Federal Reserve are telling banks how they fared in the "stress tests" at the center of the Obama administration's financial rescue plan.
Markets rallied and investors breathed a little easier Friday after a Fed news release on the methods underlying the stress tests. But the white paper, which one former bank examiner for the Fed called "not for mass consumption," left lay people wondering what it all means.
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Apr 25th, 2009 - ChicagoTribune
For the past two months, more than 150 government auditors have fanned out across the country, examining how well the nation's 19 largest banks could withstand future storms and what help they might need to avoid a meltdown.
US Stress-Test Accounting May Make Banks Raise Capital Levels
Apr 24th, 2009 - Bloomberg
April 25 (Bloomberg) -- Financial regulators may force manyof the largest U.S. banks to raise new capital or conserve extracash after accounting for assets held off their balance sheets.
The Fed Releases its Stress Test Scenario
Apr 24th, 2009 - BusinessWeek
In its first step toward disclosing the health of the country's 19 largest financial institutions, the Federal Reserve Board on Apr. 24 released the methodology behind...
Without Names, Banks Pass Test
Apr 24th, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
Stocks rose and the Nasdaq marked its seventh consecutive week of gains as investors found criteria of a bank-stress test palatable. At 2 p.m. Eastern time, the Federal Reserve laid out its framework for evaluating the nation's 19 largest banks...
Govt. Releases Stress Test Details
Apr 24th, 2009 - ABC News
Would U.S. banks survive if the economy took an even deeper downturn? The Federal Reserve shed new light on how it's trying to answer that question in a report issued today on the government's bank "stress tests.
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