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For savers at British bank Northern Rock, the days of worry may be waning. But it took a bold intervention by the U.K government to accomplish. Hoping to stem depositors' panic about the Northern Rock's solvency after it announced last week that it had requested an emergency line of...
That dramatic, gilt-edged guarantee (since, even theoretically, it has put U.K. taxpayers on the hook to bail out a business that supposedly lived and died in the free market) was enough to calm the markets Tuesday. While some of the Newcastle-based bank's savers still waited in lines...
Northern Rock, the U.K.'s fifth-biggest mortgage provider, came unstuck when the wholesale loan markets it leans on for a huge slice of its funds dried up amid the global squeeze on credit triggered last month. An emergency, short-term credit line, agreed with the Bank of England late...
Monday morning is never a quiet time for a Main Street bank. At branches of Northern Rock, a British lender, the lines outside extend even further than usual. But it's not exactly welcome business. Savers flooding the Newcastle-based bank on Monday joined the thousands to have withdrawn their...
Shares in the lender plummeted by a third in Monday morning trading (they'd already fallen by a quarter on Friday). But Northern Rock is still unlikely to fold. Britain's Financial Services Authority called the bank's loan book "good quality" in a statement issued jointly with the Bank...