1.0 link 200485 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-chandan/the-stress-tests-and-comm_b_200485.html As part of its ongoing program to restore confidence in the financial system and safeguard banks' ability to lend to creditworthy borrowers, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve made public the results of the bank stress tests (formally, the Supervisory Capital Assessment Program) after the market's close yesterday. Engineered to uncover the potential losses at each nation's nineteen largest bank holding companies under baseline and "more adverse" economic scenarios, the tests have established new capital requirements for each...

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