BUSINESS BRIEFING / FINANCIAL CRISIS
Times Wire Reports
Federal regulators now believe that U.S. bank failures will cost the deposit insurance fund more than $40 billion over the next four years as the economy weakens, a government official said.
John Bovenzi, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chief operating officer, said the agency’s estimate last fall of $40 billion in losses through 2013 probably would be surpassed.
