It’s not good to be called out by Dick Bove these days

That’s something investors in SunTrust and Fifth Third, Greater Nashville’s third- and fifth-largest banks, came to find out firsthand Monday, when Bove said their banks aren’t valued appropriately given the loan losses they still need to absorb. Other large regional banks active here shared in the misery, though their trading volumes were more in line with normal days.

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