Britain extends help to Northern Rock
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The government Tuesday agreed to extend its guarantee to all customer deposits held at Northern Rock as the bank severely hit by the global credit squeeze awaits being taken over.
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Britain will back a plan to  convert its lending to Northern Rock  into bonds, a  source familiar with the matter said, potentially tying itself  to the bank for years but avoiding full-scale nationalization.
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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 has offered an  emergency loan to Northern Rock after the mortgage lender  became the biggest British casualty so far of the credit  squeeze sparked by the crisis in U.S. subprime mortgage  markets.
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Britain decided to nationalize Northern  Rock  on Sunday, abandoning a five-month attempt to  snare a private sector buyer for the ailing bank and piling  more pressure on Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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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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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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Britain's financial watchdog is to be given new powers to intervene in failing banks to avoid a repeat of the Northern Rock crisis, finance minister Alistair Darling said in an interview out Friday.
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Britain's financial watchdog is to be given new powers to intervene in failing banks to avoid a repeat of the Northern Rock crisis, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said in an interview out Friday.
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Treasury broadens its support as fears grow that stricken bank will have to be nationalised
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Northern Rock sells Â£2.2bn of its mortgage assets to US bank JPMorgan, saying it will repay the Bank of England.
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Shares in Northern Rock recovered further as the London stock market was buoyed by a deep US interest rate cut, dealers said Wednesday.
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Victims of previous financial collapses call on government to extend Northern Rock pledge.
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Northern Rock, one of Britainâs biggest casualties of the credit crisis, sold part of its mortgage portfolio to JPMorgan as it seeks to repay about Â£25 billion, or $49 billion, in emergency financing.
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Britain set a two-week deadline for a private-sector rescue of Northern Rock, as it confirmed plans to convert its almost 25 billions pounds ($49 billion) of loans to the stricken bank into bonds in a bid to smooth a deal.
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LONDON, Sept. 17 -- Worried depositors lined up Monday outside branches of Northern Rock, Britain's fifth-largest mortgage lender, to withdraw their money even as top government officials promised them it was safe.