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April 26, 2009
April 25, 2009
U.S. Stress-Test Accounting May Raise Capital Levels
(From http://www.bloomberg.com)
By Craig Torres and Dawn Kopecki
April 25 (Bloomberg) — Financial regulators may force many of the largest U.S. banks to raise new capital or conserve extra cash after accounting for assets held off their balance sheets.
The Federal Reserve yesterday released the methods used in stress tests on the 19 largest U.S. banks, which incorporated an accounting proposal that would bring about $900 billion onto lenders’ books. (more…)