Nonetheless, Weill will from January fold Salomon Smith Barney's 400- person Japanese unit and all of Nikko's nearly 500-person corporate division, domestic and overseas, into newly formed Nikko Salomon Smith Barney.
Other NYT biz page above-the-fold stories include: "Lehman is Shutting Loan Unit" and a funny story of how the bad old U.S. is trying to shut down Internet gambling sites from Antigua and Barbuda.