Morning Scan: Banks Take a Beating in the Markets

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Buy low, sell high: If you're heavily invested in bank stocks, best to shut down your browser, step away from the computer and perhaps apply a cool compress to your forehead. It's ugly out there. Twenty of the world's biggest banks have lost a quarter of their combined market value since the beginning of the year, amounting to nearly half a trillion dollars, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Turns out...