The London’s Stock Exchange (LSE) has “transitioned to regular trading” after a systems failure led to the longest outage in eight years.
Trading opened at 9:40am this morning, 100 minutes late, following a technical issue.
The stock exchange said the outage, which resulted on suspended trading of the FTSE100 and FTSE250 indices, was due to a “potential trading services issue.” The indices are used to track equities in the the UK’s largest and mid-capitalisation equities, worth an estimated £2.3 trillion.
FTSE 350 and AIM market shares were trading as normal during the hour and a half blackout.
The LSE has yet to confirm the cause of the glitch, but said on its status page that it was “investigating a potential trading services issue”.
This morning’s outage is the longest since February 2011, when the market failed to open until the middle of the working day.
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