<div>UPDATE 2-Japan's Nomura logs best quarterly profit in 17 years on stake sale, trading gains</div> <!-- no image --> <div>* Retail division still weak, pretax profit plunges 57% (Recasts and adds CFO comment)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=gAF9xQEirB4:Xvmot6l0SzQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=gAF9xQEirB4:Xvmot6l0SzQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=gAF9xQEirB4:Xvmot6l0SzQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=gAF9xQEirB4:Xvmot6l0SzQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=gAF9xQEirB4:Xvmot6l0SzQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/gAF9xQEirB4" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters