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LSE back on track after outage
Business as usual...

By Gemma Simpson

Published: Thursday 08 November 2007

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is operating as normal after a technical issue yesterday.

An LSE spokeswoman said, towards the close of business yesterday there was a technical issue within Infolect - the primary source of the LSE's real-time market data - which affected the ability of member companies to fully participate in continuous trading and the subsequent closing auctions.

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The spokeswoman added while the platform remained operational and prices continued to be disseminated to the market as usual, connectivity issues affected a number of companies placing orders during this period.

The cause of the technical issue has been identified and a fix implemented, she added.

The LSE has escaped such technical glitches for more than seven years - with a problem in April 2000 that brought trading to a halt for the most part of a day.