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...that the bank stress tests are completed, is it time to plan another round? The government's bank exams, the results of which were released in early May, seem to have calmed the market and paved the way for the nation's largest financial firms to raise tens of billions of dollars. As a result, a number of academics and policy watchers are warming to the idea of making the stress tests permanent. They like the fact that the stress tests have restored confidence in most of the nation's largest banks. What's more, they argue that even...
...interesting exercise to do on a routine basis," says John Irons, research and policy director at the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute think tank. "I could imagine in good times that this type of stress test could remind people not to get caught up in the irrational exuberance of bank booms." (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...good times and bad, bank regulators are supposed to be probing financial firms to see if they hold adequate capital for the loans they make. And the Federal Reserve does publish data about the banks and their capital four times a year. But unless you are a bank examiner or some other industry insider, those so-called call reports are nearly impossible to read and understand...
...financial research reports these days. The measures that give us hints about which way the economy and markets are headed - everything from the number of people out of work to how difficult it is for companies to fund themselves are pointing in every which direction. As a new Bank of America-Merrill Lynch report puts it: 'The [stock market] indicators are fairly evenly divided between positive and negative readings...
Take sponsors. In theory, with several backers cutting ties with the sport - the recently nationalized Royal Bank of Scotland, for one, has other things on its mind - new ones could have negotiated more in the way of exposure than they might have three or four years ago. But amid squabbles over the future of Formula One, "at the moment it's not a good proposition," says Mick de Haas, a sports-sponsorship consultant with a history of involvement in Formula One deals. The sport, he says, is "destroying itself...