The Federal Reserve has announced its plans to test the ability of the country’s largest banks to weather a prolonged period of negative interest rates.

As reported in Bloomberg Business, the Fed wants reassurance from this year’s stress test that these banks can withstand the economic scenarios typical of a severe global recession, which could be accompanied by three-month bill rates falling below zero for three years.

Read more about this year’s stress tests in Bloomberg Business.

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