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.
真是浪费所有人的时间。在美联储(Fed)被迫公布最新银行业压力测试结果的次日,美国银行股指数收平——不管怎样,整个华尔街都在谈论那位从高盛(Goldman Sachs)离职的令人头疼的南非乒乓球“退役运动员”。摩根大通(JPMorgan)的股价也收平。摩根大通在“通过”压力测试之后,宣布了巨额的股票回购计划并将提高派息。最引人瞩目的“未通过”压力测试的花旗集团(Citigroup),股价仅下跌了3%。