Second Outage in a Month Adds to London Exchange’s Recent Woes

  • All benchmarks interupted for 40 minutes during Friday trading
  • Seperate outage to Refinitiv platform affects currency trading
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FTSE Russell indexes suffered a 40-minute outage on Friday, the second technical failure to strike London Stock Exchange Group Plc in less than a month, disrupting trades in the UK, Italy and South Africa.

All indexes went down at 9:10 a.m. UK time before the problem was resolved, a spokesperson for LSEG, which owns the indexes, said by phone. The technical glitch froze trading on a number of benchmark indexes, with a flat line displayed on intraday charts for the duration of the disruption.