Bolstered balance sheets for bigger numbers of European banks but widening gap between good banks and bad. - The balance sheets of increasing numbers of European banks are picking up and adapting to the economic crisis, according to reports in French business newspaper Les Échos. Overall, most of the big European banks made hefty profits in the third quarter of 2009, generated by their financing and investments arms, but the gap between good and bad banks is widening still further. In...