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Looking To Avoid ‘Too Big To Fail’ Scrutiny, Banks Set To Announce Earnings

As big financial institutions like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase get set to report earnings over the next week, they are under pressure to show investors they can correct mistakes from the financial crisis and still post big profits. While profitable of late, there are worries that the recent run-up in earnings is just masking the problems.

2013/04/11

Bernanke Notes ‘Stress Tests’ Show Stronger Banks

The Federal Reserve’s annual “stress tests” of major U.S. banks have become better able to detect risks, Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday night. He said the tests show that the banking industry has grown much healthier since the financial crisis.

2013/04/08

Billionaire Warren Buffett, CEO and chairman of investment company Berkshire Hathaway, speaks during a conversation with David Rubenstein, president of the Economic Club of Washingtron, during the club's 25th anniversary dinner in Washington, D.C., on June 5, 2012. (credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

Buffett: ‘Banks Will Not Get This Country In Trouble’

Billionaire Warren Buffett says American banks are stronger than they’ve been in years, and won’t derail the economy.

2013/01/10

File photo of Chase bank. (credit: Getty Images)

Fewer US Banks Failing As Industry Strengthens

U.S. banks are ending the year with their best profits since 2006 and fewer failures than at any time since the financial crisis struck in 2008. They’re helping support an economy slowed by high unemployment, flat pay, sluggish manufacturing and anxious consumers.

2012/12/28