Bradford & Bingley not eyeing Northern Rock assets
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Britain's biggest buy-to-let lender Bradford & Bingley Plc (B&B) denied a report it was considering a bid for part of troubled lender Northern Rock Plc.
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HBOS, the UK&#39;s fifth largest bank, surprised the City yesterday when it announced it would not be making a bid for Abbey National, walking away from what its chief executive, James Crosby, recently
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The assets of three registered NI companies and others in England and Spain worth more than Â£300,000 are frozen.
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Federal-Mogul Corp., the bankrupt US engineering company, may sell its UK-based Turner &amp; Newall Plc after the UK division&#39;s independent pension trustee rejected a $130 million cash offer
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HBOS has decided against bidding for Abbey National, dampening hopes of a challenge to Spanish bank Santander&#39;s agreed 8.8 billion pound takeover and hitting the target&#39;s shares.
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Treasury chief Alistair Darling said Sunday that struggling bank Northern Rock PLC will be nationalized after the government rejected two private takeover bids.
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UK bank HBOS has decided not to make a bid for Abbey, the bank has said. Many observers had expected HBOS to make a play for Abbey, which had agreed to a Â£8.
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Halifax-to-Bank of Scotland group HBOS has said it has pulled out of a potential takeover battle for Abbey National. The announcement that it will not be bidding clears the way for Spain&#39;s Santander Central
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NTL announces that it has "no present intention" of making an offer for ITV.
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The sense of panic over embattled bank Northern Rock eased Tuesday as fewer savers queued to withdraw cash and the share price rebounded slightly following government pledges.
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HBOS said it had decided against bidding for the British mortgage bank Abbey National, clearing the way for an agreed offer from Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano (SCH).
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Cable firm NTL  has dropped plans to bid for ITV  after its 4.7-billion-pound ($9.3 billion) proposal was rejected by the British broadcaster and rival BSkyB  swooped to take a blocking stake in ITV.
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English Premiership club Newcastle have reportedly rejected a takeover bid from the Belgravia Group.
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HBOS&#39;s decision not to bid for rival Abbey Nationalleaves just smaller targets for large British banks to buy in the UK, bankers and analysts say.
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Northern Rock shareholder SRM warns the Treasury not to nationalise Northern Rock for less than a fair price.
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Royal Bank of Scotland  said it was not in talks with Bank of America  regarding an attempt to resolve the purchase of LaSalle Bank, the U.S. arm of ABN AMRO which is a subject of dispute in the proposed RBS buyout of ABN.
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Business & money: Banks and venture capital study government plan for Northern Rock - whilst Branson refuses to match Olivant offer for lender