The Tokyo Stock Exchange said it suffered a trading system glitch on Tuesday, preventing some brokerages from being able to place orders.The Tokyo bourse said one of the four lines in its trading system linking it and securities firms went down around 7:30 a.m. and remained offline throughout the day. The problem was caused after it received an extraordinary amount of data from a brokerage during a routine checkup of the system.The excessive volume of data was sent by Merrill Lynch Japan Securities, according to a source familiar with the matter.Trading began at 9 a.m. as usual after the TS…READ FULL ARTICLE
