stress tests

Stress tests. Massive government interventions. Speculation that the government would nationalize Citigroup and Bank of America.

The Treasury Department has given ten banks the OK to pay back TARP funds. These banks did well on the stress tests.

But there are questions about whether the TARP did the banks any good and if the tests were stringent enough.

John Dimsdale reports.

Banks that underwent stress tests earlier this month have set out raise $56 billion to plug holes in their books caused by big losses, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told a Senate panel on Wednesday.

Some unlikely political allies are pushing a piece of legislation that calls for a full-scale audit of the Federal Reserve and its 12 regional banks.

Steve Henn reports what would be involved in a stress test for the Fed.

With bank stress tests out of the way, the Obama administration has turned its focus to reshaping how the government oversees banks and could potentially push to consolidate regulators.

With the stress tests behind them, banking regulators now face the potentially thornier issue of deciding which banks, if any, should be allowed to repay government funds.

BB&T slashes its dividend, and US Bancorp and Capital One will issue shares to repay the funds. Fed chief Bernanke will speak about the bank stress tests.

Intel faces charges in the European Union.

Now that we know from the government's stress tests that the American banking system will survive, the question remains what will happen to lending.

The big banks' stress test results have been pushed back as executives try to convince the Treasury Department to give them passing grades.

Kai Ryssdal speaks with the Peterson Institute's Adam Posen about the negotiations.

Federal regulators have been reticent to release results from stress tests it subjected big banks to, but has finally said it will release certain details.

What's the benefit of releasing those details? Ashley Milne-Tyte reports.