These tests would assess the impact of different financial and economic scenarios on an institutions earnings and capital strength.
Government-controlled Ally Financial, the rescued former finance arm of General Motors, was the only bank to fail the test of capital strength.
The big banks will be sorted according to their capital strength.
However, we do believe, we have the leadership, the experience, the risk management discipline, the capital strength and certainly the liquidity to ride out the cycle.
The company acknowledged it had fallen behind in its goals for two critical measures of capital strength, tier-one capital, which was at 7.3% at the end of September, and tangible common equity to risk-weighted assets, which was 5.9%.
Monte dei Paschi, seeking to staunch an outpouring of allegations surrounding its request for a second state bailout, has admitted the use of derivatives forced it to demand extra help but insisted that it has "no evidence" that bribes were behind the costly acquisition of a local rival that undermined its capital strength.
Orphan-drug status, for example, can help a biotech firm raise capital on the strength of its latest product.
Both companies reported stellar fourth-quarter and year-end profit gains on strength in capital-markets activities.
Now firms have learned to exploit it and providers of capital see it as a strength too.
Parliamentary heavyweights Amien Rais and Akbar Tandjung have rallied Muslim anger in the capital in a show of strength aimed at Wahid and his Vice President, Megawati Sukarnoputri.
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Further, analysts with Barclays Capital say there are signs of strength in Chinese auto sales.
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The capital increase allows Deutsche Bank to act from a position of strength with only modest dilution to shareholders, while putting the bank's ultimate 10% capital-ratio target within reach, the lender said in a slide show for an analyst call scheduled for Tuesday morning.
But Paul Koontz, of Foundation Capital, worries that a business whose strength and flexibility are largely based on personal relationships is now becoming institutionalised.
The company is struggling to hold on to the top financial-strength rating, as its capital position is severely strained by exposure to subprime mortgage securities that have deteriorated in value, triggering the possibility that Ambac and other bond insurers will have to pay out on the policies they wrote.
As I said earlier, the real strength of Kenya is your human capital.
Schroer's fund, invested largely in pharmaceuticals and biotech, is up 35% so far this year on the strength of some good venture-capital investments and investor excitement over the potential genomic revolution.
The evidence, from Chile and elsewhere, is that the extent to which such capital movements are destabilising depends largely on the strength of a country's financial system and the soundness of its economic policies on matters, in other words, that are under the control of governments.
The bank's profit number beat consensus forecasts by about 5 per cent, and the core tier one capital ratio -- a key measure of financial strength -- was also slightly ahead of expectations at 12.3 per cent.
As a sign of Beijing's strength, American officials dutifully go to the Chinese capital much more than their counterparts come here.
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Capital spending, led by high tech, was another area of strength, many believed.
International regulations known as Basel III will increase the costs of holding minority stakes in financial institutions, forcing big banks to set aside more capital in order to maintain regulators' key measures of balance-sheet strength.
As Mr Biden was showing off US military hardware in Beirut, Hezbollah was staging its own show of strength in Nabatieh, a provincial centre south-east of the capital.
Timothy Geithner, then head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, told watchdog officials that size and importance--not strength or weakness--were the criteria for choosing which firms needed immediate capital injections.
Yet Mr David worries that Wall Street's initial strength may prove misleadingly optimistic, as it does not reflect new rules on higher capital requirements or the reforms introduced by Dodd-Frank, which threaten to curb risk-taking.
It is quite hard to be precise, because none of the banks report their current capital position on the transitional Basel 2.5 basis (ie the rules for measuring balance-sheet strength that will apply in 2015).
After that, if a strong economy is necessary for maintaining peace through strength, how is our economy strengthened by all the money spent, not to mention human capital expended, on protecting South Korea and Japan?
For years, the strength of the dollar and the buoyancy of asset prices in America helped to attract inflows of foreign capital.
Geithner attributed the strength of the U.S. banks, including the largest ones, to sustainable levels of capital and financial leverage as well as stable funding sources.
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With a modest investment in time and data collection, investors can use ETFs to surf those waves of capital, taking advantage of a well-known phenomenon in the markets called "momentum, " or "relative strength, " in which rising shares tend to keep rising for three months to a year after they start their run.
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