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Wall St fears grow over stress test results

By Francesco Guerrera and Edward Luce

Published: April 17 2009 22:00 | Last updated: April 17 2009 22:00

With less than three weeks to go before Washington releases the results of its “stress tests” of the nation’s 19 largest banks, most of Wall Street appears to be in need of Prozac.

Rising panic over how the results will be released has raised fears the results could lead to another collapse of confidence in the battered financial sector. Among other concerns, there is uncertainty over how the federal government will release the results, whether it will publish one aggregate number, or a bank-by-bank breakdown.

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