Word: stress
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...introducing Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee for the Supreme Court, President Obama was careful to stress that the Appeals Court judge had already been confirmed twice by the Senate in the 1990s. But while the first of those confirmations went remarkably smoothly, the second was held up by the same kind of partisan warfare that many observers are bracing...
...Baghdad Friendly Fire An American soldier who had recently been referred for counseling allegedly gunned down five fellow service members at a combat-stress clinic on a U.S. military base. A communications specialist from Texas on his third tour in Iraq, the suspect, Sergeant John M. Russell, 44 (pictured), was charged with five counts of murder and one of aggravated assault in the U.S.'s deadliest soldier-on-soldier attack of the Iraq...
...want to know whether the banking crisis is in the third inning or the ninth, consider Corus Bankshares. The Chicago regional bank has made just over $4 billion in commercial real estate loans. The recently completed government bank stress tests assumed that as many as 12% of all such loans could go bad in the next two years. So Corus is looking at a potential loss of $480 million. How much capital does Corus have to absorb those losses? Nothing. Nada. In fact, Corus is already is the hole for $9 million. Call the failure hotline...
...Some analysts believe that with the economy turning, commercial real estate loan losses will not be nearly as bad as Cassidy expects. But even under the government's baseline scenario for the banking industry, which was released as part of the stress test, U.S. banks could have as much as $84 billion in losses from commercial real estate. The government's adverse-case scenario suggests losses could reach as high as $200 billion...
...There are a large number of community banks that were very active in commercial real estate lending," says Robert Hartheimer, a Washington-based banking-industry consultant. "To the extent that the economy does not recover for a while, these types of loans are going to put a lot of stress on our nation's smaller banks...