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Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management has withdrawn an advertisement on Google for its VCT brokerage service following a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

Advisers and providers will need to be mindful of breaching regulatory rules when drawing up adviser charging contracts, an RDR paper by Deloitte warns.

A year on from the explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig that caused one of the worst environmental disasters in US history and saw the oil giant's share price plunge more than 50% in 50 days, we recap the key events...

The final cost to BP from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster could reach $60bn (£37bn), according to fresh analysis from ratings agency Moody's.

Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, shrugged off warnings from a leading ratings agency about the US public finances as he sought to reassure Wall Street that the world's biggest economy would be able to maintain its highly-prized AAA rating.

US markets opened higher this afternoon after shaking off losses sparked by yesterday's surprise Standard & Poor's downgrade of the outlook for US debt.

Gold has risen to hit a record $1,498.90 an ounce, with demand fuelled by a declining dollar and concerns following S&P's outlook downgrade for the US.

Fund managers are misrepresenting the Financial Stability Board's report on ETFs to leverage their own position, said Brewin Dolphin's Ben Gutteridge.

Anne Gunther, the former Standard Life Bank chief executive, will take over as head of troubled building society Norwich & Peterbourgh (N&P).

The pension industry has welcomed the Treasury's rejection of early access to pensions and supports reform of trivial commutation.