Outage Freezes Tokyo Stock Exchange, World’s 3Rd Largest

Outage Freezes Tokyo Stock Exchange, World’s 3Rd Largest
A man walks by the Tokyo Stock Exchange building, in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 1, 2020. Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo
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TOKYO—Tokyo Stock Exchange plans to resume normal operations Friday after it halted trading for the day due to what they said was a malfunction in its computer systems—the worst such outage ever.

There was no indication that the outage at the world’s third-largest exchange resulted from hacking or other cybersecurity breaches.