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To: TobagoJack who wrote (65051)	8/4/2010 11:30:27 PM
From: Amark$p	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217648

FWIW, China has a much better stress test for its banks... This 50%-60% stress test should be more than adequate. Will be interesting to see Chinese Banks capital adequacy ratios under this scenario. _______________________ From Bloomberg: China Said to Test Banks for 60% Home-Price Drop Banks were instructed to include worst-case scenarios of prices dropping 50 percent to 60 percent in cities where they have risen excessively ... Previous stress tests carried out in the past year assumed home-price declines of as much as 30 percent. At least they are realize prices can fall sharply. In some European countries the regulators assumed steady prices was a worst-case economic scenario!