To reduce the risk of panic, the Tokyo Stock Exchange opened half an hour later than usual and halved the limits placed on daily stock-price movements.
It has no dailystock quots or charts of stockprice movement but does claim to provide reports on 2, 900 companies and 30 industry sectors in seven Latin American economies.
They delighted in learning about everything from the Baltic Dry Index (the daily number given to the price of moving raw materials by sea) to the stock of Crocs, which several of them also wore.