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Are More Bank Runs Coming? The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

Money For the Rest of Us

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Introduction

The holding company for Silicon Valley Bank planned to raise $2.2 billion through new stock issuance. The purpose was to replenish capital that it had lost after selling $2 billion of U.S. Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities. Moody's Investor Service was threatening to downgrade S. V. B.'s debt rating due to the large amount of unrealized losses on its bond portfolio.

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