NEW YORK - JULY 21: A man operates an automated teller machine at a Bank of America branch bank in midtown Manhattan July 21, 2008 in New York City. Bank of America Corp. reported falling profits of 41-percent to $3.41 billion in their second quarter earnings but nonetheless beating analysts' 54-percent estimates, sending their stock price higher to $30.24 a share in morning trading. Getty Images logo Getty Images 11 months ago

NEW YORK - JULY 21: A man operates an automated teller machine at a Bank of America branch bank in midtown Manhattan July 21, 2008 in New York City. Bank of America Corp. reported falling profits of 41-percent to $3.41 billion in their second quarter earnings but nonetheless beating analysts' 54-percent estimates, sending their stock price higher to $30.24 a share in morning trading.

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  1. A customer uses an automated teller machine at a Bank of America branch in Chicago May 7, 2009. Lessons from government "stress tests" of the 19 largest U.S. banks could provide a guide to improvements in financial supervision and regulation, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday.
  2. A sign for a Bank of America branch is shown in downtown Philadelphia, Thursday, May 7, 2009. Some of the nation's largest banks will be scrambling to demonstrate that they can raise capital after results of government stress tests leaked out, showing many need more funds. The Treasury Department will officially release results later Thursday.
  3. CHICAGO - MAY 06: Pedestrians pass by a Bank of America branch May 6, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Regulators have determined that the bank needs about $34 billion in new capital to be healthy.
  4. CHICAGO - MAY 06: A pedestrian passes by a Bank of America branch May 6, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Regulators have determined that the bank needs about $34 billion in new capital to be healthy.
  5. CHICAGO - MAY 06: A maintenance person cleans up in front of a Bank of America branch May 6, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Regulators have determined that the bank needs about $34 billion in new capital to be healthy.
  6. CHICAGO - MAY 06: Pedestrians pass by a Bank of America branch May 6, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Regulators have determined that the bank needs about $34 billion in new capital to be healthy.
  7. CHICAGO - MAY 06: A bicyclist sits in front of a Bank of America branch May 6, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Regulators have determined that the bank needs about $34 billion in new capital to be healthy.
  8. CHICAGO - MAY 06: A maintenance person cleans up in front of a Bank of America branch May 6, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Regulators have determined that the bank needs about $34 billion in new capital to be healthy.
  9. CHICAGO - MAY 06: A maintenance person cleans up in front of a Bank of America branch May 6, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Regulators have determined that the bank needs about $34 billion in new capital to be healthy.
  10. CHICAGO - MAY 06: Pedestrians pass by a Bank of America branch May 6, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Regulators have determined that the bank needs about $34 billion in new capital to be healthy.
  11. CHICAGO - MAY 06: Pedestrians pass by a Bank of America branch May 6, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Regulators have determined that the bank needs about $34 billion in new capital to be healthy.
  12. CHICAGO - MAY 06: Pedestrians pass by a Bank of America branch May 6, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Regulators have determined that the bank needs about $34 billion in new capital to be healthy.
  13. People enter a Bank of America branch on New York's Upper West Side, Thursday, May 7, 2009. Some of the nation's largest banks will be scrambling to demonstrate that they can raise capital after results of government stress tests leaked out, showing many need more funds.
  14. Traders visit the post that handles Bank of America on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, May 4, 2009.
  15. FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2009 file photo, Bank of America Corp.'s CEO Ken Lewis arrives at the building that houses the office New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in New York. Lewis has been ousted as chairman of Bank of America Corp. after shareholders angry about the company's acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. voted to separate that job from that of the bank's chief executive. Lewis will remain the CEO of the bank, but board member Walter E. Massey will become BofA's chairman.
  16. A Bank of America logo can be seen in a bank branch in New York April 28, 2009. Bank of America Corp's embattled CEO, Kenneth Lewis, may have to give up the post of chairman as shareholders held a referendum Wednesday on his eight-year tenure as head of the largest U.S. bank.

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