Lloyds TSB Scotland, which is part of the group, is shutting the division that handles mortgage sales through financial advisers, as it prepares its planned sale to the Co-operative Bank.

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Spiva retired at 45 from her position as senior vice president of sales for the southeast division of the investment group Charles Schwab and said financial education programs can be empowering.

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The carrier network group contributed revenue of 160.3 billion yuan, the consumer division recorded sales of 48.4 billion yuan and the enterprise unit added another 11.5 billion yuan.

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Ira Epstein, director of the Ira Epstein division of The Linn Group, cited quantitative easing and early expectations for improvement in Christmas-related sales as factors that may help commodities.

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At the centre of the group's financial crisis is the performance of the car division, which accounts for some 40% of sales, and which made a whopping euro429m operating loss in the first quarter alone.

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