At a Bloomberg sovereign debt briefing in late June, a question was asked about whether the stress tests would look at sovereign exposure.

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The problem with these stress tests is that they assumed that 80 % of Greek sovereign debt was risk-free, as all other debt issued by Euro members.

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And the Federal Reserve Board is imposing new stress tests to determine whether leading banks can withstand a wave of sovereign- debt and bank defaults in Europe.

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