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To: stockman_scott who wrote (55102)	1/18/2006 7:27:07 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362548

Nikkei falls nearly 3 pct before trade halted Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:55 AM ET (Updates to closing) TOKYO, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The Nikkei share average fell 2.94 percent on Wednesday before the Tokyo Stock Exchange halted trade 20 minutes earlier than usual, as a flood of orders on world's second-largest stock market taxed its computer system. More than $300 billion in shareholder value has been wiped out of the market this week -- equal to about the gross domestic product of Sweden -- much of it from the fall-out from an investigation into Internet portal company Livedoor Co. (4753.T: Quote, Profile, Research) . Internet firms and other companies popular with individual investors were among the hardest hit, with Softbank Corp. (9984.T: Quote, Profile, Research) ending the day down by its daily limit of 500 yen, or 13 percent. The Nikkei posted its biggest one-day percentage fall since April of last year, declining 464.77 points to 15,341.18. The broader TOPIX index fell 3.49 percent to 1,574.67.