Trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) was halted for three and a half hours earlier because of technical difficulties. The LSE said it had been affected by connectivity issues, and at 1033 GMT had placed all orders for shares into an “auction call period”. This allowed traders to put orders to buy or sell shares into the system, ready for when trading restarted. Normal trading was then able to resume from 1400 GMT.
“We regret the inconvenience that today’s disruption to trading has caused for our clients,” said London Stock Exchange chief executive Xavier Rolet.
