London shares close lower with Northern Rock, banking sector down
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UK blue chips closed lower as Wall Street remained weaker with the banking sector heavily hit, as Northern Rock dropped sharply again.
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Shares in Northern Rock dropped 40 percent to a 7-year low in London after customers reportedly withdrew at least Â£2 billion, or $4 billion.
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London shares traded sharply lower on Wednesday as investors cautiously awaited Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke&#39;s semi-annual testimony to Congress and Tate &amp; Lyle led FTSE fallers after posting flat profits.
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Leading London shares closed lower Monday with Northern Rock plummeting 35 percent, Alliance &amp; Leicester down over 32 percent, and the US unable to offer much support ahead of the US Federal Reserve&#39;s decision on interest rates tomorrow.
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Leading shares closed weaker in dull trade, but finished off the morning low as Wall Street's early decline proved less than feared, dealers said.
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London equities fell on Thursday, on renewed worries about potential write-downs in the financial sector.
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Leading shares finished lower, with the UK construction sector down on concerns the Bank of England&#39;s decision to keep interest rates unchanged has upped the risk of a further hike by the end of the year.
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London stock markets fell on Friday, with banks exerting downward pressure after further credit market-related shocks in the sector.
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UK blue chips closed lower, off the day's highs, with a weak start on Wall Street, ahead of Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday, and fading bid hopes at ITV weighing on market sentiment, dealers said.
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Leading shares closed down Wednesday, just off session lows, with financial stocks providing the main drag on the Footsie, while Wall Street made heavy losses after disappointing pending home sales data hit investor confidence.
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UK blue chips have closed lower, with a cautious morning by Wall Street and sliding commodity stocks outweighing another scattering of M&amp;A stories and pulling the FTSE 100 back from Friday's six-year highs.
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UK blue-chips closed lower, with mining and oil stocks weighing on the FTSE 100, while losses on Wall Street added to investors concerns.
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Northern Rock shares slump 9.5% after it warns that earnings would not be as strong as analysts predict.
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Leading shares ended lower after a thinly-traded session tracking falls on Wall Street with investors cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve's latest US interest rate decision due after the London close tonight.
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London equities fell further on Monday, with fading hopes for a rescue bid for Northern Rock putting shares in the bank under further pressure.
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Blue chips closed lower off highs as Wall Street remained lower with interest rate sensitive sectors such as retailers bearing the brunt of the falls with a disappointing update from DSG International helping to weigh down the FTSE 100.
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Leading shares in London closed lower Tuesday hit by heavy falls on Wall Street while rumours of a potential problem at a London based hedge fund offset news of a significant stake build at Cadbury Schweppes, dealers said.