Prudential primarily relies on retail banking network for distribution activity with sales made via insurance agents.

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Retail banking, automobile dealerships, hospitals, with Lexmark's sales and profits growing with each industry it conquered.

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U.S. retail sales data, industrial output in China and the euro area, the ongoing Spanish banking crisis and possible further monetary policy easing in Japan will all be overshadowed by the Greek elections, said Nomura Securities analysts in a 16 page report on Friday.

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Women, because of their lesser use of Web banking and sales, suffer from more old-fashioned fraud caused by stolen credit cards or retail employees, he says.

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