(Update story with comments from James Shanahan, financial services analyst at Edward Jones.) The Federal Reserve on Thursday announced the results of its annual stress tests for 33 large US banks and US subsidiaries of foreign banks. Since the Fed’s “severely adverse scenario” for stress testing was designed in February, …
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(Update story with comments from James Shanahan, financial services analyst at Edward Jones.) The Federal Reserve on Thursday announced the results of its annual stress tests for 33 large US banks and US subsidiaries of foreign banks. Since the Fed’s “severely adverse scenario” for stress testing was designed in February, …
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Text size JPMorgan Chase shares rose in response to the news. Spencer Platt / Getty Images Bank investors who braced themselves for the bad news on Thursday got at least one dose of something positive: regulators eased the risk-taking restrictions imposed after the 2008-09 financial crisis. The Federal Deposit Insurance …
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On Thursday, the Federal Reserve voted in favor of requiring large banks to preserve capital by suspending share buybacks and dividend payments in the third quarter. In a 4-to-1 vote, the Fed will tie dividend distribution to a formula based on recent earnings. The formula establishes the third quarter dividends …
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Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc., which has not yet shared the results of the phase 1 trial for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, has already received millions of dollars in funding to expand manufacturing capacity. An announcement Tuesday that the Defense Department would pay $ 71 million to finance the manufacture of a …
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