May 7th, 2009 - Reuters
Citigroup Inc (C.N) and Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) shares rallied inpremarket trading ahead of the release of "stress test" results that will forcethem and other top banks to raise tens of billions of dollars in capital. The results of government stress tests of the ability of the 19 largestU.
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