After The European Bank Bloodbath, Is Canada Next? The Time to Panic About Canadian Banks May Have Finally Arrived

• After The European Bank Bloodbath, Is Canada Next? The Time to Panic About Canadian Banks May Have Finally Arrived
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com 
  … Sadly, the folks at Zerohedge.com were looking at the best numbers, and even more sadly, in the interim nearly 5 years, Canada’s banks took absolutely no action to bolster their capital ratios; in fact, these have only deteriorated.
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  The Globe and Mail, however, was right about one thing: the TC ratio did not capture the full risk embedded in Canadian bank balance sheets: it was merely a shorthand as to how much capital said banks have in case of a rainy day.
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  Sadly for Canada, it’s not only raining, it’s pouring for the country’s energy industry, a downpour which is about to migrate into its banking sector. Which is why it is indeed time to take a somewhat deeper dive into the Canadian banks’ balance sheets, where we find something very troubling, and something which prompts us to wonder if the time of freaking out about European banks is about to be replaced with comparable panic about Canadian banks.
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  The following chart from an analysis by RBC shows that when compared to US banks’ (artificially low) reserves for oil and gas exposure, Canadian banks are…not.
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  Here is the one chart showing why the time to panic about Canadian banks may have finally arrived: (top of post)
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