Preliminary Q3 bank checkup: Better, but symptoms persist

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on November 6, 2009 at 8:10 am

Chris Whalen says it looks like banks were no more stressed in the third quarter than in Q2. But they are by no means relaxed yet.

Since only the 19 Stress Text banks were really under pressure to window dress Q3 results for compliance purposes with the Fed’s SCAP stress tests, the inference we draw is that the rate of change in terms of stress throughout the industry was likewise more moderate in Q3.

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