So what should investors expect in terms of capital returns following 2013 stress tests?
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The July stress tests, which did not allow for sovereign defaults, offer scant guidance.
They've offered bone-density scans, stress tests measuring oxygen consumption and the like, says Liponis.
Finally, on Thursday, we'll get results of the government stress tests on individual banks.
The market faces the additional hurdle later in the week of Eurozone bank stress tests.
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The focus is now on Italy and upcoming stress tests on its financial institutions.
On Wednesday, German bank Helaba withdrew from the stress tests to avoid public failure.
At the same time, Spain is waiting for the final results of its bank stress tests.
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Nevertheless, the publication of the stress tests could clarify the landscape for investing in European bank stocks.
He affirmed his bullish stance after the mid-July release of EU bank stress tests hit the stocks.
In July the government asked banks to conduct stress tests assuming a 60% decline in housing values.
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The Treasury Department is expected to release the results of a new round of stress tests Thursday.
He suggested potential loan receivers shouldn't look at the stress tests in terms of pass or fail.
The Association of British Insurers has called the stress tests a "distraction from vital regulatory change".
Ireland's spectacular bail-out of its banks, just months after they passed the stress tests, also rattled investors.
The EBA came in for fierce criticism last year for its handling of EU-wide bank stress tests.
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But they felt in a bind, because critics had derided the initial July stress tests as too weak.
The earliest indicator of success for BofA this year are the upcoming CCAR results, or Fed stress tests.
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It could also help some firms get a passing grade on government 'stress tests' to assess their fiscal health.
Doing so might reveal important interactions that are missed by stress tests at the level of the individual firm.
Although guidelines generally discourage the practice, post-revascularization stress tests are still commonly performed.
The banks will conduct the stress tests under three different scenarios, including a baseline, adverse and severely adverse.
The good news is that a process already exists for doing stress tests.
The IMF's executive board emphasized that bank stress tests did not attempt to represent the full scope of capital needs.
There is also the continued optimism surrounding the European bank stress tests which have served to strengthen the common currency.
Bill Clinton had multiple stress tests, all of which came back negative, not long before he had quadruple bypass surgery.
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Its stress tests gave a clean bill of health to banks that were later poleaxed in Belgium, Spain and Cyprus.
Friday brought one of the final and most important ones for Spain, the results of the financial sector stress tests.
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No, the stress tests were initiated in order to understand, given a severe economic recession, what the capital requirements would be.
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