08 December 2005
Word on the street is that a securities trader in Japan just placed an order to sell 600,000 shares of stock for one yen, when in fact he meant to sell one share of stock for 600,000 yen. The result? His company lost $200 million and the Japanese stock market is down 2%. Sort of puts things in perspective, doesn't it?
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