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IMF sees European banks facing $4.5 trillion sell-off

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What happens if European banks fail to get the pledges they need to get their fiscal crisis under control? The International Monetary Fund says that they will have to shed $4.5 trillion in assets—up 18 percent from its April estimate. Such an asset sale would reduce growth by 4 percentage points in Greece, Cyprus, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain.