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Japan's Nomura Holdings is considering acquiring a stake in U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, the Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Saturday.
Nomura has a pool of funds exceeding 200 billion yen ($1.86 billion) for investing in or acquiring U.S. and European financial institutions, the Japanese brokerage's chief executive, Kenichi Watanabe, told Yomiuri in an interview.
Watanabe said Lehman [LEH
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"We are always considering a number of possible business moves," Nomura spokesman Eiji Miura told Reuters, but declined to comment further.
The state-controlled Korea Development Bank has also said that the subprime mortgage-hit Lehman was a possible acquisition target.
Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group earlier this week denied a media report that it may bid for a stake in Lehman.
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