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Fri Dec-09-05 12:04 PM
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Still want to put your SS funds in the stock market?

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Botched Stock Trade Costs Japan Firm $225M
TOKYO - Japan's government rebuked the Tokyo Stock Exchange and one of the country's biggest brokerage firms Friday after a typing error caused Mizuho Securities Co. to lose at least 27 billion yen ($225 million) on a stock trade.

The error roiled the Japanese market, while jitters over the reliability of the exchange's trading system contributing to a 1.95 percent drop in the benchmark Nikkei 225 index Thursday

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051209/ap_on_bi_ge/japan_botched_trade;_ylt=AmTzdt5TGk5AHO4nXjOmIk.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

Tell me, why wouldn't this be able to happen here?

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