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Note: Lloyds Banking Group managed a L1bn pre-tax profit in 2009, thanks largely to an L11.2bn negative goodwill gain from its acquisition of HBOS.
This gain helped overcome pound(s)24bn of impairments during the year , on a combined business basis excluding the goodwill credit, Lloyds lost pound(s)6.3bn.
The bank said impairments likely peaked in the...