(Finance) – Un system “accident”. has halted trading of hundreds of shares on the London Stock Exchange for the last 80 minutes of today’s session, Thursday 19 October. The FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and International Order Book stocks (shares listed in London of foreign companies) traded normally, explained the stock exchange manager (LSEG), not providing any details about the nature of the problem.
The FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and IOB stocks closed normally, we read in updates on the problem, with the London Stock Exchange invoking a Halt & Close for the affected instruments, underlining that “it was a closing price is set and disseminated for the securities concerned”. However, there was no closing auction.
This is the first halt in trading on the London Stock Exchange since 2019.