Fed Completes Stress Tests

Don't brace yourself for the results; they're secret -- ``The Fed tested how banks would weather a worst-case economic scenario where the inflation-adjusted gross domestic product, the total value of goods and services produced in the economy, contracts 1.5% this year. In addition, the Fed test proposed the unemployment rate would climb to 11% this year from the current level of 8.9%, and that an index of U.S home prices would fall by 6.2%. The central bank didn't disclose the results of the stress tests and didn't say which institutions were granted permission to increase their dividends. ''