CAVEAT: Wall Street's rumor mills routinely manipulate share
prices.

NEWS (purported)
TOKYO - September 6, 2008., Japan's largest brokerage group,
is considering buying a stake in investment bank Lehman
Brothers.

Earlier this week, South Korean media reported the state-
controlled
Korea Development Bank has made a proposal to acquire 25
percent
of Lehman for as much as 6 trillion won ($5.3 billion).

Media reports also mentioned China's CITIC Securities or
sovereign
wealth funds from Abu Dhabi and Qatar as possible alternatives
to the
Korean bank. Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group denied
reports
that it was considering bidding for a stake in Lehman.

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