Definition of stress test
: an electrocardiographic test of heart function before, during, and after a controlled period of increasingly strenuous exercise (as on a treadmill)
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For example the Treasury and financial supervisors have made the stress tests that banks face less elaborate, and on May 22nd the House passed a bill exempting banks with less than $250bn of assets from some rules (see article).
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Researchers put the system in a variety of stress tests, including simulations of what would happen if an engine in a spacecraft failed or power had to be shut off for awhile.
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Under Powell, the Fed has also been working to make the stress tests less of a black box for bankers.
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Under the stress test, prospective buyers must quality for a mortgage at a rate roughly 2 percentage points above what’s negotiated.
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Particular sore points were increased reporting, higher levels of cash on hand, stress tests to evaluate the health of institutions, the Volcker Rule, and greater scrutiny of mortgage lending.
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According to the Two Degrees Investing Initiative, a think-tank that conducted climate stress tests for the Swiss and Californian regulators, global equity and corporate-bond markets also look dangerously exposed to energy-transition risk.
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One provision of the new bill would raise the threshold at which banks are subject to certain federal oversight, including stress tests that measure a bank’s ability to withstand an economic downturn.
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One explanation is that our president lacks the capacity to govern, failing even the most basic leadership stress test.
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First Known Use of stress test
1955
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Definition of stress test for English Language Learners
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: a test to show how strong something is; especially : a medical test to show how strong and healthy your heart is during a period of exercise
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medical Definition of stress test
: an electrocardiographic test of heart function before, during, and after a controlled period of increasingly strenuous exercise (as on a treadmill)
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