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A fault at the London Stock Exchange has prevented top British companies from trading on Friday for over an hour.
An undescribed technical issue has kept FTSE 100 UKX, +0.00% and FTSE 250 MCX, +0.00% companies from opening.
A trading notice said “instruments on partition 1 and 2 will resume in an opening auction call at 09:20 and will uncross at 09:40.” Partition 1 refers to FTSE 100 companies, and partition 2 is FTSE 250 companies.
That’s the second outage in 14 months for the LSE LSE, -0.09% , which recently inked a $27 billion pact to buy Refinitiv, a provider of financial data and infrastructure.
The LSE’s other exchanges, including the AIM and Borsa Italiana, were operating.
This being the age of social media, Twitter had a few jokes.
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