Bank braced for withdrawals
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The troubled Northern Rock bank extends its opening hours to cope with customers wishing to withdraw savings.
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Starting Thursday, if you write a check, the money had better be in the account to back it up. The cash could be coming out quicker.
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Major American banks are expected to unveil substantial losses and secure more cash from abroad in what is shaping up to be a pivotal week for the global credit crisis, with central banks also poised to weigh in again.
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Business & money: Norwich Union tipped as next to impose freeze on withdrawals by small savers
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U.S. and European banks including  Citigroup Inc  and HSBC Holdings PLC  are  considering selling off parts of their businesses as they  prepare for tough times ahead, the Wall Street Journal  reported.
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Comings and goings in the financial industry.
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The British government's pledge to guarantee all deposits held by Northern Rock in an effort to shore up confidence in the country's fifth-biggest mortgage lender will be put to the test on Tuesday when branches reopen.
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Business & money: Banks may be forced to seek huge injections of fresh capital as the credit crunch shows no sign of abataing
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Higher interest rates for bank depositors are stressing local and regional banks.
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Writing a check a day or two before you have enough money to cover it will soon become a riskier money-management strategy, some consumer and banking groups warn.
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Northern Rock faced another day of customers withdrawing their savings and share price drops on Monday after an emergency bail-out from the Bank of England last week.
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The Bank of England provided emergency funding to mortgage lender Northern Rock PLC on Friday after the bank, citing the global credit squeeze triggered by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, said it was unable to line up short-term loans from other financial institutions. Even after the central bank issued a statement saying Northern Rock was solvent, slow moving lines of customers snaked through its doors to make withdrawals.
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Business & money: Tomorrow could mark the start of the endgame for the troubled bank. Heather Connon reports
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Hundreds of worried customers of embattled bank Northern Rock began queuing outside their local branches at dawn Saturday as they scrambled to withdraw savings.
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BELFAST - A bank in Northern Ireland hit by a massive robbery said on Friday it was considering the drastic measure of taking several denominations of notes out of circulation as a means of preventing the criminals enjoying their haul.
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Big banks try to gird for crises as a  matter of course and investors will soon learn how prepared  they were for this summer&#39;s credit crunch.
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Supply of credit has tightened and likely to get worse, Bank of England warns