1.   In meeting a court-imposed deadline, Justice Department attorneys worked on their concluding briefs deep into the evening hours and well past the major market closings.

2.   UPDATES with Luzhkov remarks, market closings,

3.   Tokyo share prices rallied in closing trade on arbitrage-led buying, with the market closing at its high for the day, brokers said.

4.   Japanese share prices rebounded Thursday with the key market barometer closing one percent higher on late futures-linked buying, brokers said.

5.   Property stocks were lower in line with the weaker market closing.

6.   The Frankfurt stock market scored a respectable gain in cautious trading before release of US job figures, which occurred after the official market closing.