Tokyo trader is blamed for £380 BILLION share trade blunder

[link to www.dailymail.co.uk]

Share orders worth over £380 billion were cancelled in Japan after a 'fat finger' trading error.

Orders for shares in 42 companies, which amounted to more than the size of Sweden's economy, were cancelled at 9.25am today, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from the Japan Securities Dealers Association.

The biggest order was for Toyota Motor shares at over £1.2 billion, representing 57 per cent of the company's outstanding shares.