In Maine, engineers turn about 1 million scrap tires a year into lightweight highway fill; the shredded rubber stabilizes embankments built on weak marine clayInnovatively transforming shredded tyres into construction materials for highway embankments, Maine tackled substantial waste tyre pileup w...
31 Aug, 2026, 02.25 PM IST
A 3,700-year-old olive tree in Portugal keeps producing olives as old trunk sections sprout again, revealing how one of nature’s longest-lived trees can repeatedly rejuvenate itself across thousands of yearsPortugal is home to olive trees that may be more than 3,700 years old. These ancient trees have survived droughts, wars, changing landscape...
18 Aug, 2026, 08.28 PM IST
What are the Fed's bank 'stress tests' and what's new this year?The US Federal Reserve is releasing its annual bank stress test results today, assessing how major lenders would fare in a severe economic ...
23 Jun, 2026, 04.55 PM IST
Fed says banks can withstand economic downturn, clears way for dividend hikesThe Federal Reserve reports that major US banks can withstand a severe economic downturn. These banks maintain strong capital levels even a...
28 Jun, 2025, 09.19 AM IST
Big banks, companies sue US Fed over stress testsThe lawsuit filed in US District Court in Columbus, Ohio, claims the Fed's practice of determining how big banks perform against hypothetic...
25 Dec, 2024, 07.59 AM IST
Big banks, business groups sue US Fed over annual stress testsMajor banks and business groups sued the Federal Reserve on Tuesday, alleging the U.S. central bank's annual "stress tests" of Wall Street ...
24 Dec, 2024, 08.25 PM IST
US Fed floats major changes to bank stress tests in light of legal rulingsThe U.S. Federal Reserve is planning major changes to annual bank stress tests. Banks may be allowed to comment on the models and scenarios...
24 Dec, 2024, 07.22 AM IST
Big US banks withstand Fed's commercial real estate shock scenarioAmid economic uncertainties, the Federal Reserve's stress tests revealed big U.S. banks' resilience to a 40% drop in commercial real estate...
27 Jun, 2024, 07.44 AM IST
Big US banks expected to be cautious on shareholder payoutsBig U.S. lenders brace for Fed stress tests evaluating capital resilience in economic hardships, impacting returns to investors amid challe...
25 Jun, 2024, 07.45 AM IST
Fed eyes trouble in commercial real estate, corporate debt in 2021 stress testsThe scenarios also envision a global recession where US unemployment jumps to 10.75%, economic growth falls by 4%, and the stock market she...
12 Feb, 2021, 09.57 PM IST
Wall Street poised for $11 billion in buybacks with Fed decisionJPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley said in statements they plan to resume buybacks starting next quarter.
21 Dec, 2020, 07.45 AM IST
US Fed's bank stress test results absurd: Larry SummersSummers’ criticism follows similar calls by other Federal Reserve officials.
09 Sep, 2018, 01.05 PM IST
If Fed moves unlock billions at banks, here's who might win mostThe Fed’s new approach to more closely align capital with the stress tests should be a good news.
17 Apr, 2018, 11.39 AM IST
- Fed said to criticise banks on risk models in stress test
Federal Reserve criticised how some of the 19 largest US banks calculated potential losses and planned dividends in this year's stress test...
02 May, 2012, 04.11 AM IST
- Federal reserve stress tests make us all muppets
As the organisation that sets monetary policy, the Fed feels the need to be careful about what it says, and goes out of its way to convey c...
28 Mar, 2012, 03.55 AM IST
- Fed orders new 'stress tests' for banks
The largest US banks must undergo new stress tests to show they can weather another recession, and the Federal Reserve said those that pass...
18 Nov, 2010, 01.57 AM IST
- Fed says gov't ready to save stress-tested banks
The Federal Reserve on Friday said the government is prepared to rescue any of the banks that underwent "stress tests" and were deemed vuln...
25 Apr, 2009, 03.46 AM IST