{"id":7146,"date":"2008-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"rock-investors-may-get-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2008\/rock-investors-may-get-nothing.html","title":{"rendered":"Rock investors &#8216;may get nothing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Post- Investors in stricken bank Northern Rock are facing the prospect of getting next to nothing for their shares after the Government&#8217;s decision to nationalise the lender.<\/p>\n<p>The bank&#8217;s shareholders &#8211; including more than 100,000 small investors &#8211; could receive no compensation under plans to value Northern Rock on its worth without a Government guarantee, according to City experts.<\/p>\n<p>Banking analysts said that the Government may yet decide to offer investors a payment to avoid a lengthy legal battle.<\/p>\n<p>But any payout is still likely to leave shareholders nursing steep losses, with Northern Rock&#8217;s value having plummeted from &pound;5.3 billion this time last year to just &pound;375 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&#038;ct=us\/0-0&#038;fd=R&#038;url=http:\/\/www.dailypost.co.uk\/news\/uk-world-news\/2008\/02\/18\/rock-investors-may-get-nothing-55578-20489454\/&#038;cid=0&#038;ei=Plq5R4u3OYPoqwPg7dDDDw\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Post- Investors in stricken bank Northern Rock are facing the prospect of getting next to nothing for their shares after the Government&#8217;s decision to nationalise the lender. The bank&#8217;s shareholders &#8211; including more than 100,000 small investors &#8211; could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}