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Table 2 shows some results for “typical” shocks to equity prices, interest rates and credit quality. The equity and interest rate shocks each represent about two-standard deviation movements in the underlying risk factor over a three-month horizon (sample period: 1970–2000). In 2002, for example, Japanese equity prices fell by more than 20 percent while long-term yields declined by nearly 100 basis points (bp).The credit risk stress test also represents a shock of the same order of magnitude of that observed in 2002, when three of seven city banks reported losses that exceeded 3 percent of their loan portfolio.
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