What a waste of everybody’s time. The day after the Federal Reserve was forced to release the results of its latest stress tests, the US bank index finished flat. (All of Wall Street was talking about the sore South African ping-pong pensioner anyway.) Shares in JPMorgan, which on top of “passing” the stress test announced a mega buyback and dividend hike, were also flat. And the highest profile bank to “fail”, Citigroup, was down just 3 per cent.
真是浪費所有人的時間。在美聯儲(Fed)被迫公布最新銀行業壓力測試結果的次日,美國銀行股指數收平——不管怎樣,整個華爾街都在談論那位從高盛(Goldman Sachs)離職的令人頭疼的南非乒乓球“退役運動員”。摩根大通(JPMorgan)的股價也收平。摩根大通在“通過”壓力測試之后,宣布了巨額的股票回購計劃并將提高派息。最引人矚目的“未通過”壓力測試的花旗集團(Citigroup),股價僅下跌了3%。