WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve on Tuesday said that its stress test for big banks will imagine a rapid increase in unemployment, as it announced the details of the hypothetical scenario that banks must survive to pass the latest round of the exams. The Fed’s latest “severely adverse” scenario imagines unemployment rising by six percentage points to 10%, along with stress in corporate lending and commercial real-estate markets.

Source: Wall Street Journal February 05, 2019 21:34 UTC