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In the UK the FTSE 100 Index has added 7.40 points, or 0.1%, to 5460.50 led by O2 and Aberdeen Asset Management. Game Group fell.

O2 added 2p, or 1.3%, to 155p. The mobile-phone operator has raised its fiscal- year sales growth forecast for the fourth time in 14 months after adding subscribers and keeping existing ones for longer. Aberdeen Asset Management has climbed 2.75p, or 2.6%, to 108.25p. The Scottish money manager which is buying the UK fund business of Deutsche Bank says funds under management increased 11% in the five months to 31 August on net inflows and market gains. Game Group has lost 3.5p, or 4.1%, to 83p. Britain's largest video-games firm says its fiscal first-half loss has widened as prices of...

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