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Fed stops big banks from buying back stock, paying dividends

NEW YORK (AP) — A worst-case scenario for the U.S. economy ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic would cause the nation’s 34 largest banks to collectively lose roughly $700 billion, the Federal Reserve said Thursday.To bolster the banks ahead of such a potentially damaging recession, the Fed ordered them to suspend buybacks of their own stock…