{"id":74,"date":"2006-09-18T18:08:38","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T10:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/2006\/09\/18\/esl-business-news-3-transcript-200-million-dollar-mistake\/"},"modified":"2007-11-18T20:26:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T12:26:11","slug":"esl-business-news-3-transcript-200-million-dollar-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter2\/2006\/09\/18\/esl-business-news-3-transcript-200-million-dollar-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"BEP Business News 03 (Transcript) – 200 Million Dollar Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"
Our news story today is about a share trader in a Japanese bank who made perhaps the worlds most expensive typing error!<\/p>\n
A typing error has cost a Japanese bank at least US$220 million and staff their Christmas bonuses, after a trader mistakenly sold 600,000 more shares than he should have.<\/p>\n