After Days of Panic, Midsize Banks See Stocks Rise

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For the first day since Silicon Valley Bank’s unwinding, there were no widespread reports of customers being denied the chance to withdraw money from ATMs and bank branches. It appeared that the worst fears of widespread cash shortages were contained for now.Yet much uncertainty remains. As bank shares were recovering and branches returned to normalcy on Tuesday, only a few institutions had provided extensive updates about the degree to which skittish customers were pulling out their money.On Monday, First Republic’s executive chairman, Jim Herbert, told CNBC in an off-camera interview that the bank was not experiencing an unusual level of withdrawals, a pronouncement that the anchors on the set greeted wit …

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