31.   Shares of Nomura Securities rose amid growing confidence the company will soon recover from a trading scandal that surfaced in March, traders said.

32.   SINGAPORE -- Even at the epicenter of a huge international trading scandal, Singapore appears calm and unruffled.

33.   The allegation against Fang follows a series of trading scandals at China National Nonferrous Metals Co., a business arm of the metals trading firm.

34.   The ministry does not know whether the discarded documents contained evidence about the trading scandal, the official said.

35.   The trading scandal, which emerged this summer, sent prices falling on world copper markets.

36.   The women own stock in an insurance company, Polisa, whose major investors include ex-Communists implicated in an insider trading scandal.

37.   Acting CFTC chairman John Tull meanwhile praised Sumitomo for its response to the trading scandal, Jiji said.

38.   Criminal and financial investigators from Britain and the United States were headed here to probe the copper trading scandal at Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp., officials said Wednesday.

39.   Japanese media have strongly criticized the finance ministry for the way it handled the massive bond trading scandal.

40.   Japanese prosecutors are to set up a special task force to step up investigations into a copper trading scandal at Sumitomo Corp., the Mainichi Shimbun reported Saturday.