All posts tagged "Stress"

The European Union this week publishes results of stress tests on Europe's embattled banking sector amid a dangerous phase in the eurozone debt crisis that threatens to engulf Italy and Spain.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's idled nuclear reactors could restart work if they pass the first stage of two-step post-Fukushima safety checks, the government said on Monday.

LONDON — European banking regulators moved Wednesday to downplay reports that some of the new "stress tests" on banks due later this year would be less strict than the much-criticised tests carried out in 2010.

A former CNN Iraq correspondent suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder says his employers wouldn't run footage he filmed of what he describes as a war crime by US troops, an Australian news source reports.

Haiti and its neighbors must prepare themselves for more massive quakes after the devastating tremors this week increased pressure along a lengthy fault line, scientists warned Friday.

I'll admit; I was glad for the Texas Book Festival this weekend because it kept me off the computer for hours at a time. And I've been buried in Sarah Vowell's new book, which I'll finish in what seems record time. I try to read political news and keep up with changes in the campaigns, but inevitably I end up looking at polling data, and using Yahoo's "create your own scenario" map to convince myself that we're very close to losing this, because it's just too easy to see all the major swing states go for McCain. It seems possible that Obama could get 55% of the vote and still lose, and the idea makes my stomach churn.