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Tesco has said the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has started an investigation into its accounting error, after the supermarket revealed last month it had overstated its half year profits by £250m.

Baillie Gifford has lifted its stake in Hargreaves Lansdown to over 5%, taking advantage of a fresh slump in the D2C platform's share price last week.

The Office for National Statistics has revised second quarter growth figures in the UK up from 0.8% to 0.9% in its final estimate.

Franklin Templeton is to rebrand Colin Morton's UK Blue Chip fund as the Franklin UK Rising Dividends fund in a bid to make it more attractive to those seeking a growing income stream.

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Balfour Beatty shares have plunged over 20% this morning, after the UK's biggest construction company issued another profit warning.

Protests in Hong Kong caused the country's stock market to tumble today, while sharp drops in its currency forced the country's monetary authority to announce emergency measures to provide support.

George Osborne is expected to announce cuts to a so-called 'death tax' which applies to the untouched pension pots of over-75s at this year's Tory conference.

Aberdeen Asset Management today said outflows from its business had slowed significantly following a sustained period of redemptions, with the group also seeing better than expected flows from recent acquisition SWIP.

Dividend growth will continue to disappoint the market unless some 'financial alchemy' comes in to play, explains Charles Luke from the Murray Income trust.