Why does the Tokyo Stock Exchange stop trading between 11.00am and 1.00pm JST every day?
I've been keeping a track of the Nikkei Dow index recently following it's plunge on Thursday and would like to know why it just stops for two hours every day between 11.00am and 1.00pm?
Public Comments
- Tradition - brokers go for lunch. A fine example of organised labour success, if you ask me.
