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Investors rank the NHS as the most important issue when deciding how to vote tomorrow, according to a survey from DWS Investments.

The UK budget deficit will hit 12% this year to become the highest in the EU, the European Commission forecasts.

Only 40,000 lucky Berkshire Hathaway shareholders got the chance to see their hero Warren Buffett in the flesh as they made their annual pilgrimage to Omaha over the weekend for the investment firm's annual meeting.

Canada Life has appointed Craig Rippe as head of UK equities after a restructuring of its equity investment team.

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (Swip) has promoted Mike McNaught-Davis to the newly created role of head of international equities.

Legal & General's (L&G) investment arm increased inflows by over 50% in Q1, helped by recovering markets says the company.

Investec Structured Products has raised £3.8m for its first VCT launch.

The FTSE was off 0.83% at 5365.96 points this morning despite the largest miners regaining some of the ground they lost yesterday.

Goldman Sachs was reported last night to be considering settlement talks with the US regulators over the fraud charges brought against it last month, reports The Times.

Prudential has delayed the issue of details of its $21 bn cash call, because it has failed to reach agreement with the FSA on its capital position.