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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/73eb3454-8d52-11dc-a398-0000779fd2ac,s01=1,stream=FTSynd.html
Technical glitch throws FTSE into confusion
By Robert Orr
Published: November 7 2007 17:10 | Last updated: November 7 2007 17:41
Share trading in London was disrupted on Wednesday afternoon after a technical glitch at the London Stock Exchange.
Dealers were left scratching their heads as FTSE indices on data terminals throughout the City flashed up incorrect prices towards the end of the trading day.
The data appeared to show that the FTSE 100 and other leading UK indices were higher, despite having been sharply lower all session.
Stock prices also appeared to show incorrect price data.
Dealers left the office as the unprecedented outage left them unable to complete trades on the exchange’s Sets order book.
The LSE confirmed there was “an issue with the way data is being disseminated” and blamed the Infolect service channel.
The failure of the systems controlling Europe’s largest equity market is an embarrassment to the London exchange, although it is thought to be the first such outage for several years.
The exchange extended the closing auction by an hour to 5.30pm GMT in the hope of correcting the problem, assuring that prices would be correct by 6pm GMT.
By then, the FTSE 100 was showing a fall on the day of 54.8 points, to 6,420.1 and the FTSE 250 was down 200.4 points to 11,13.45.
However, dealers were still unconvinced by some of the prices that showed on their terminals.
The glitch came at the end of another busy session on the exchange, with banking stocks once again under pressure.
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