Tokyo Stock Exchange weighs extending hours to lure foreign money

Japanese bourse eyes domestic retail and overseas investors in global push

The Tokyo Stock Exchange feels that longer hours could make the bourse more attractive to foreign investors and domestic retail traders. © Reuters

Nikkei staff writers

May 17, 2021 18:01 JST

TOKYO -- The Tokyo Stock Exchange is planning to extend trading hours beyond the current 3 p.m. so that it can stay open longer for investors in European and U.S. time zones, Nikkei learned on Monday.

The plan, which also provides more opportunities for domestic retail investors who trade after work, will be limited to the spot-trading of stocks. The exchange will discuss the plan with financial companies.