The U.S. Justice Department dismissed a criminal case against UBS ( UBS ), which required the bank to admit that it helped American citizens evade taxes, Bloomberg reported. Prosecutors said that UBS--Switzerland's larges bank--had complied with an 18-month agreement it had signed in February of last yea, which dictated that UBS pay $780 million and admitted to assisting in tax evasion from 2000 to 2007, Bloomberg reported. "The banking sector, mortgages, inflation in emerging markets, deflation here, a mini-currency crisis -- those issues are weighing on everybody's minds."