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Stress test

Tests conducted by federal supervisory agencies in early 2009 to estimate the range of possible future losses among US banks and determine if they have sufficient capital buffers to withstand the impact of a severe recession. The stress test involved two scenarios, a base scenario and a worst case scenario.

Stress Test

A simulation measuring the capital adequacy of a bank. A government conducts a stress test to attempt to ensure that a bank can remain solvent in a crisis. The term came to prominence in 2009 and 2010 when the U.S. Treasury conducted stress tests of bailed out banks before it allowed them to repay Treasury loans.

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There are published recommendations and appropriate use criteria for specific types of cardiac stress tests [7-10]; however, there is no consensus or recommendation about which the modality of cardiac stress test to choose preoperatively.

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''I cannot help but suspect there are problems in the entire quality of the (stress test) operations at TEPCO,'' Edano told reporters, adding that the number of errors in the utility's report it submitted to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency earlier was incomparably high compared with other cases.