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Stressing Over the Stress Test

By Jim Cramer

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 Stress test -- that's what the bank selloff was about today. Will SunTrust meet Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's stress test? How about BB&T (good interview yesterday). Capital One , the key credit card company in this country? Fifth Third ? Comerica ? Are these going to be inside the fence or outside it? Are they going to survive in their current forms? Will the common stocks be worth anything? These are the burning questions of bank holders since they heard "stress test," because, as we all know, most banks in this country are insolvent and if you decide which are winners and which are losers, many household banks are going to be in the latter camp. In fact, Geithner's stress test is code, code for what happened in 1989 when the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation stress-tested the savings and loans and closed 1,600...

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