THE JAPANESE STOCK market had a tough start to its fiscal second half as a hardware failure forced the Tokyo Stock Exchange to halt trading in all listed shares for a whole day. The exchange said an attempt to switch from the failed system to a backup system also failed, preventing market information from being distributed. With everyone now working from home and facing a whole new world of IT challenges, this sort of outage that may once have provoked anger or mockery, now just elicits a nod of sympathy and a genuine desire to ask whether they tried turning it off and then back on again.
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