Few Banks Fail EU Exams

LONDON—European regulators, trying to douse the Continent's financial crisis, unveiled the long-awaited results of their banking "stress tests," but the small number of lenders that flunked the exams immediately provoked skepticism. The European Banking Authority said eight of the 90 banks it ...

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