Business Oct 20, 2020
Japan finance chief vows steps to prevent another Tokyo Stock Exchange outage
The bourse has said it and securities companies will hold drills for switching to a backup system in the event of a serious technical failure.
Business / Financial Markets | FOCUS Oct 2, 2020
Unlike equity markets in nearby Hong Kong natural disasters have never forced the exchange to close, but it has repeatedly been taken down by technical glitches.
Business / Financial Markets Oct 2, 2020
Tokyo Stock Exchange resumes trading after worst-ever outage
The 225-issue Nikkei stock average jumped 0.7 percent to 23,354.51 shortly after opening following reports the government is considering fresh stimulus for the economy.
Business / Financial Markets Oct 1, 2020
Tokyo trading halted due to hardware failure
by Osamu Tsukimori
Trading was suspended from the start of the morning session at 9 a.m., and the exchange is preparing to resume trading Friday by restarting the overall system.
Business / Financial Markets Jul 27, 2020
Japan's first integrated stock and commodity futures bourse opens in Osaka
On the first day of trading, gold futures briefly hit an all-time high of ¥6,594.
Business / Financial Markets Jun 4, 2014
Osaka Exchange looks to expand into commodity, forex markets
Japan Exchange Group Inc., the country's main exchange operator, is considering expansion into commodities and foreign exchange as Asian economies continue to grow. "We have the ambition to expand our product base from securities into the other types of products including commodities," Hiromi Yamaji, chief ...
Business / Corporate Apr 28, 2014
Japan Exchange Group Inc., the main bourse operator in the world's second-largest equity market, tumbled in afternoon trading after forecasting full-year profit that missed analyst estimates. Net income for the year through March 2015 will be ¥21 billion ($206 million), JPX said Monday, 35 percent ...
Business / Financial Markets Feb 19, 2014
Merger of Jasdaq, Mothers, second section eyed
by Anna Kitanaka and Satoshi Kawano
Japan Exchange Group Inc. will consider merging three smaller equity markets to simplify its exchange structure, a bourse official said. JPX, created last year from the merger of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Securities Exchange, will weigh combining its Mothers, TSE second section and ...
Business Jul 18, 2013
Women need to be up to speed on stocks for bourses to survive: survey
Japan Exchange Group Inc., the operator of the largest stock exchange outside the U.S. by value, needs to attract more female investors, according to a report released Wednesday based on a survey of 10,000 people. Men outnumber women by about 2-to-1 among people claiming to ...