Trading Halted on Tokyo Stock Exchange
February 2, 2012
The Tokyo Stock Exchange halted trading on 241 stocks on Thursday.
Trading stopped at 9 a.m. Tokyo time due to “troubles on the market data/market information distribution. ”
Trading on ToSTNeT, the Tokyo Stock Exchange Trading NeTwork, also was halted.
Trading resumed at 12:30 p.m., when the market data distribution system had recovered.
Orders began to be received at 12:05 p.m. for the Tokyo Stock Exchange auction market and from 12:30 P.M. for ToSTNeT market.
Derivatives markets operated normally.
The ToSTNeT system gives investors a means of executing various transactions such as block trading and basket trading during off-auction hours.
The main purpose of ToSTNeT has been to complement the auction market by handling orders for which smooth execution is difficult using the auction algorithms.
Here is list of the TSE stocks affected
