Tokyo's Nikkei Index Rises 1.2 Percent (AP)
Japanese stocks climbed Monday, led by trading houses and oil sector shares buoyed by higher commodity prices. The market appeared to shrug off concerns about faltering consumption on weak U.S. jobs data.
Lehman Accuses Trading House of Fraud (AP)
Fake business cards, impostors at meetings and forged documents stamped with the company seal are behind what appears to be an elaborate scam that Lehman Brothers in Japan alleges bilked it of millions of dollars in vanished investment money.
