Bonds plan to save embattled British bank: report
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The British government is to support a plan to turn the Bank of England's loans to troubled bank Northern Rock into bonds for sale, the BBC reported Saturday.
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Bank of England policymakers are widely expected to freeze British interest rates on Thursday after hiking borrowing costs to a five-year high of 5.0 percent in November, analysts said.
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Britain set a two-week deadline for a  private-sector rescue of Northern Rock  on Monday as it  confirmed plans to convert its billions of pounds of loans to  the stricken bank into bonds in a bid to smooth a deal.
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Britain has received a report from U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs on options for the troubled Northern Rock bank and is talking to potential buyers about them, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday.
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The Bank of England looks set to cut UK interest rates amid signs of a slowing economy, analysts say.
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The Bank of England is set to offer lenders an extra Â£10bn in funds to limit the impact of a credit crunch.
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Royal Bank of Scotland , the British bank trying to lead a takeover of Dutch rival ABN AMRO, said it expects its UK bad debts to fall in the first half of this year to help it beat forecasts for underlying earnings.
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More participants will join a credit  rescue plan that three lead banks are setting up to help  stabilize the asset-backed commercial paper market, but it will  be temporary, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Saturday.
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Bank of England expected to push rates up to 5.75%.
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Bear Stearns Cos. , trying to prevent the collapse of two of its hedge funds, may take over about $3.2 billion of the funds' loans to prevent creditors from seizing more assets, Bloomberg reported on its Web site on Friday.
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NEW YORK -- Bear Stearns Cos.'s attempt to rescue its money-losing hedge funds may falter now that creditor Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. has decided to seize and sell $800 million worth of bonds held as collateral for loans to the funds.
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Top UK banks are set to report combined profits of about Â£38bn for the past year despite worries about exposure to bad debts.
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Japan's central bank plans to end its unprecedented policy of buying stocks from the nation's banks this month, a sign that its purchases over the past two years have helped restore stability to the financial system, Britain's Financial Times newspaper reported Wednesday.
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The government may try to sell off its loans to Northern Rock to investors as bonds, the BBC has learned.
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British workers will have to save more and retire later to make up for a looming gap in pension savings, said the author of an official report being released Tuesday.
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Troubled bank Northern Rock could be sold off following its emergency bail-out by the Bank of England, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
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The Bank of England is considering making explicit interest rate forecasts, the bank's Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy Rachel Lomax said in a speech on Wednesday, the Financial Times reported.