Northern Rock ups sub-prime rates
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Northern Rock is to lift the rates on its range of fixed-term mortgages to borrowers with patchy credit histories.
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Business & money: Â· Credit crunch creates Â£210bn backlog of buyouts Â· US sub-prime crisis claims more jobs and firms
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The Bank of England raises UK interest rates to 5.75%, warning that pricing pressures remain elevated.
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The Bank of England has offered an emergency loan to Northern Rock after the mortgage lender became the biggest British casualty of the credit squeeze sparked by the crisis in the U.S. subprime mortgage market.
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U.S. Treasury prices rose on Wednesday  as technical jostling for positions pushed benchmark yields  below the 4-percent threshold, sparking talk that mortgage  investors might step in and add fuel to the rally.
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The government is to offer more financial support to private sector Northern Rock buyers.
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Two of the UK's largest banks will this week boost the financial sector by increasing dividend payments, a report says.
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The board of Northern Rock has submitted a revised offer to buy out the troubled British bank, upping the amount of money it is prepared to pump in, it said Friday.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve on  Wednesday raised interest rates for a sixth straight time,  extending a policy of gradually lifting borrowing costs to  levels high enough to ward off inflation pressures.
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The British government deepened its involvement in Northern Rock on Tuesday, offering to guarantee more of the stricken mortgage bank's liabilities as it battles to find a private-sector buyer.
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Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in yesterday's auction, with the three-month bill climbing to the highest level in six years.
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The ECB is likely to raise interest rates in a regular monthly policy meeting scheduled on Thursday. The key rate that is now at a historic low of 2% will probably be raised to combat inflationary pressures.
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Mortgage rates in the US increase, and short-term rates rise overseas.
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There was a measure of relief for the banking sector on Tuesday after the Treasury extended its guarantee beyond Northern Rock's customer deposits to its wholesale banking products.
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Business & money: Bob Diamond receives payout despite Â£1.6bn sub-prime hit as bank beats forecasts
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Business & money: 9.30am: Shares in the bank jumped almost 3% after recommendation.
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OTTAWA - Interest rates are up and are likely going higher but don&#39;t lock in that variable-rate mortgage, experts advised Tuesday after the Bank of Canada raised interest rates a further quarter-point.