Tokyo Stock Exchange Asks Investors to Group Orders; Morning Trade Exceeded Half of Exchange's Capacity : Bloomberg



Tokyo Stock Exchange Asks Investors to Group Orders
2006-01-17 23:09 (New York)


By Tomomi Sekioka
Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The Tokyo Stock Exchange asked
investors to group orders after morning trading exceeded half
the exchange's capacity for daily transactions.
The exchange would be forced to halt trading if the
capacity was exceeded, the exchange said in a statement on its
Web site.
The exchange's daily order capacity is 4 million
transactions, and 2.32 million transactions were processed in
morning trading.