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Two Winning Bank Stocks: U.S. Bancorp and BB&T Corp.

I've been a business banking customer of US Bank for a few years now. They still have problems with their internet banking, seem to consistently have trouble with wire transfers (both domestic & international), are a hit or miss as far as employees go -but their saving grace seems to be the appearance of stability during this banking mess. However, they recently took $4 Billion from the Fed under the TARP program -which indicates anything but stability. So far, I have seen no disclosure as to what sort of dilution this will cause to shareholders -or what sort of restrictions the Federal Governments additional involvement will place on their business operations. If they were as financially sound as they claim to be, they would not have a need to participate in the bailout.