Pandemic Update of the Fed's Stress Test
In this webinar, we will assess the three new economic scenarios provided by the Fed.
Given the extraordinary uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve has taken the extraordinary step of requiring the nation’s largest banks to re-take this year’s stress test of their balance sheets and income statements. We will assess the three new economic scenarios provided by the Fed, and the expansion of the variables provided by the Fed to those in our model of the U.S. and global economies.
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