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- Treasury Talks to GMAC About More Cash
- By Glenn SomervilleWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury Department is in talks with GMAC Financial Services Inc about a possible third cash infusion to the company, an Obama administration official confirmed on Tuesday night.The official declined to say how much additional money was under discussion for GMAC, which already has received...
- News items 2009-10-28
- West Coast Bancorp Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions The first question comes from Louis Feldman. Louis Feldman – Hoefer & Arnett Inc. You know it is that when I intentionally wait, still come in first. Good morning. Hadley, would you, I wanted to double-check, you said that you got 62 million of CRE...
- Earnings calls 2009-07-24
- CapitalSource Inc. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from John Hecht - JMP Securities. John Hecht - JMP Securities You guys provided great detail in terms of your stress test, that the legacy assets and the legacy organization. If I remember it, you also conducted a similar stress test...
- Earnings calls 2009-08-06
- As Treasury Mulls TARP Payback, Congressional Panel Asks For More Stress Tests
- As Treasury prepared to allow 10 banks to pay back TARP funds as early as later today, some are arguing that the government stress tests ought to be carried out all over again. by Daniel M. Harrison
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Toxic Assets Wreck Wall St.
- Many banks are expected to fail the "stress test," leading the market into a tumble, reports Priya David. Julie Chen talks to financial manager Art Cashin.
- Videos 2009-04-21
- Bank Nationalization: Back on the Radar With Stress Test Results
- Whatever you do, don't smile when you say the words "bank nationalization." An angry radio listener accused me of being the Marlo Thomas of finance -- "Your cutesy 'That Girl' delivery ran counter to the implications of what you were saying about nationalizing our financial institutions, comrade." Nice touch with...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Elizabeth Warren: TARP Repayment, More Stress Tests and a Fall off the Pedestal
- I like Elizabeth Warren, chair of the congressional oversight panel for TARP. She's smart, tough, passionate and opinionated. I met her years ago on the radio airwaves, when I interviewed her after she and her daughter co-authored "The Two Income Trap". But this morning, Ms. Warren fell...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
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- Who Will Flunk the "Stress Test?"
- Who will fail the "stress test?" Good question. The Obama administration will soon be checking a number of the country's largest banks which have received some of the $700 billion federal bailout money. The feds want to know whether the banks have sufficient capital and...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Are You Failing the Stress Test?
- Lost savings. Lost jobs. Threatened flu pandemic. Who wouldn't be under some stress these days? The editors at Harvard Business Publishing recently published two articles that help you diagnose stress in yourself as well as the people who work for you, and offer tips on what to...
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Blizzard Entertainment Partners with FilePlanet for World of Warcraft Stress Test Beta; FilePlanet to Exclusively Provide Stress-Test Files to 100,000+ Players
- IRVINE, Calif. -- Blizzard EntertainmentR today announced plans to collaborate with FilePlanet on Blizzard's upcoming World of WarcraftTM stress test beta. This seven-day test will help Blizzard optimize World of Warcraft to deliver the best online-gaming experience possible when it launches later this year. Gamers in North America will have...
- Research articles 2004-08-27
- Why Today's Stress Test Announcement Should Reassure Investors
- Tom Brown submits: On Wednesday, the Treasury Department will release some details of the much-ballyhooed “stress test” it plans to apply to all banks with over $100 billion in assets. While it’s possible, I suppose, that Secretary Geithner will disappoint the markets yet again, I doubt that will happen....
- External links 2009-02-25
- Some Notes and Predictions on Stress Test Results
- Dear John Thain submits: As the results of the stress test start leaking out slowly, it’s a fun exercise to make some educated guesses/predictions about what the future holds and take note of pertinent facts. As we’ve discussed before, there is a lot to take issue with when considering...
- External links 2009-05-06
- Early (Rumored) Stress Test Results
- Why wait a whole day for the official results of the stress tests when there are rumors to spread? You've already heard that 10 of the 19 banks need dough, so here's a roundup of what's being bantered around 24 hours prior to the release of the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- A.M. Best Comments on Catastrophe Stress Test
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- Given the recent enhancements made to many catastrophe management tools available to the insurance industry, A.M. Best is making modifications to its catastrophe stress test, which in some cases will require less capital for a company to support its catastrophe exposure. Those companies that would be afforded...
- Research articles 2006-04-10
- Geithner's Stress Test, Revealed
- Eric Falkenstein submits: The crack team at the Treasury, headed by veteran enterprise-wide capital allocations specialist Tim Geithner, revealed their stress test. The following scenarios are modeled: The stress test assumes an unemployment rate averaging 8.9% in 2009 and 10.3% in 2010, a 3.3% contraction in gross domestic product...
- External links 2009-02-25
- Stress Test: All Just a Publicity Stunt
- Neither the Government, the senior management of the big banks nor the investors need a Stress Test to determine the financial status of the banks. Treasury and Fed investigators have been inside of the big banks for months now. The heads of the banks know where they stand as well....
- External links 2009-04-30
- Stress-test cracked under pressure - FSA.
- Byline: Watchdog's top men face select committee to defend its Northern Rock role The City regulator's model for stress-testing financial institutions failed at the moment of its greatest challenge, the Treasury Select Committee was told on Tuesday. In evidence to...
- Research articles 2007-10-11
- The Stress Test Stress: Making a Bad Situation Worse
- Vernon Hill submits: If you were going to concoct a process for regulating the banking system that would be certain to take a bad situation and make it even worse, how would you go about it? First, you might devise a top-down, overly broad “stress test”...
- External links 2009-04-21
- Stress Test Leaks: Endgame Emerging
- Ryan Avent submits: It’s a leak free-for-all ahead of the stress test release, and it’s a little difficult to sort out what’s going on. Citigroup and Bank of America are apparently asking the government to conclude that they need no new capital while simultaneously looking to raise upwards of...
- External links 2009-05-04
- Stress Test Your Finances
- While the government is busy stress testing the banks, this is a good time for you to stress test your own finances. Even though the markets have improved lately, the economy is still getting worse. Hopefully, we are in a bottoming process, but if not, you need to be prepared...
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
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