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Monday, June 21, 2010

Economics: EU Banks Pass Moody's Debt 'Stress Test'

Many of the European Union's biggest banks passed Moody's 'stress test' designed to gauge exposure to debt in Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ireland, the rating agency said in a statement Friday.

"Based on our stress test, we believe that these banks would be able to absorb the losses that could arise from such exposures without requiring capital increases - even under worse-than-expected conditions," Jean-Francois Tremblay, a senior analyst at Moody's, wrote in the report.

For more, see EU Banks Pass Moody's Debt 'Stress Test' by CNBC.com, June 11, 2010.

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