Zions Bancorp: After crunching numbers, Utah bank's fitness still up in the air

(SALT LAKE TRIBUNE) -- Depending upon who is doing the analysis, Zions Bancorp is either in dire need of more capital or well positioned to withstand billions in losses that may lie ahead.

Almost as soon as the Federal Reserve released the results of its so-called stress test on the nation's 19 largest banks in early May, analysts who follow the nations regional banks turned on their computers and plugged in their own data on Zions.

They were eager to see how regional banks would have fared had the Fed included them in its stress test, which assumed the economy would perform worse than expected through the end of next year. Original Article