London Stock Exchange Incident Halts Trading in Many Stocks
- The 80-minute outage hit hundreds of smaller-cap equities
- Stocks on the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 indexes weren’t affected
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A system “incident” halted trading in hundreds of shares on the London Stock Exchange for the final 80 minutes of Thursday’s session.
The outage affected mostly smaller-cap equities, but included several high-profile names such as Asos Plc, Deliveroo Plc and Metro Bank Holdings Plc, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Stocks on the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 250 and international orderbook weren’t affected, London Stock Exchange Group Plc said on its website.