226100 Resource 133538 120646 120646 1234366430253 1239825517321 Controlled How Would Banks Do with a "Stress Test"? Shedding light on financials' true losses could destroy confidence <font size="2"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Right now, the <a title="U.S. stock market, U.S. stocks, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread bets stock market, spread betting U.S. stocks, Timothy Geithner, bank rescue" target="_blank" href="http://www.thestreet.com/story/10463291/1/stocks-bounce-back-after-tuesday-thrashing.html">U.S. stock market is bouncing back</a>. After yesterday's devastating losses -- spurred in part by a lack of confidence in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Timothy Geithner's </span><a title="U.S. stock market, U.S. stocks, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread bets stock market, spread betting U.S. stocks, Timothy Geithner, bank rescue" target="_blank" href="item/226013">bank rescue plan</a> -- stocks are recovering a bit. Even bank stocks are making a comeback today on the stock market.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">However, spread betting and contracts for differences on <span style="font-weight: bold;">U.S. stocks</span> should consider how long this rally is likely to last. One of the plans brought up is a &quot;stress test&quot; that would <a title="U.S. stock market, U.S. stocks, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread bets stock market, spread betting U.S. stocks, Timothy Geithner, bank rescue" target="_blank" href="http://forex.gftforex.com/public/item/226097">require banks to better disclose their losses</a>.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Would such a requirement send <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wall Street</span> tumbling again as investors realize how precarious the situation is for many financial institutions?</span></font><br /> 9 application/xml false bank rescue contracts for differences spread bets stock market spread betting spread betting U.S. stocks Timothy Geithner U.S. stock market U.S. stocks What Did Timothy Geithner Say About the Economy? Outline of the bank rescue plan http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/text-geithners-remarks/story.aspx?guid={F6F46645-1582-4999-8AFB-186EA763C78F}&dist=TNMostRead Spread Betting on U.S. Stocks Spread bets on the stock market http://www.gftuk.com/land/index.asp?aid=53 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 66.182.66.2 false true false false true 133538 blog blogsite/GFTUK/web