Pound slides as Northern Rock nationalisation weighs
Story date: 2008-02-18 01:16:00
Added on: 2008-02-18 05:01:18
International Herald Tribune - The news that the government plans to take Northern Rock into public ownership added to investor concerns about the UK financial sector, encouraging speculation that interest rates are set to fall further from the current 5.25 percent. This ...
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