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Faith in the future, patience and discipline have been highlighted as three of the key principles of long term investing.

The FSA's consultation into platform pricing will not start until the middle of next year as the regulator conducts research into pricing models across the market.

Seven men have been sentenced to a total of 39 and a half years imprisonment for carrying out an £8m investment fraud in a Spanish boiler room operation.

Stress and other mental health issues are now the most common reason for people absent from work, new research has found.

The UK economy grew at just 0.1% in the second quarter,lower than previously expected, the Office for National Statistics has announced.

The Post Office has launched the third issue of its popular Inflation-Linked savings bond.

Tesco Bank has posted a 65.9% increase in profits for the first half of 2011/12 compared to the same period last year.

The FTSE 100 made up some of the ground lost in recent days, gaining over 100 points in early trading, amid talk in Europe of plans to recapitalise the banking system.

US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has told Congress the US economy is "close to faltering" and more action may be needed.

Italy's credit rating has been slashed by ratings agency Moody's, piling more pressure on the beleaguered eurozone.