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> London Stock Exchange trading derailed by computer crash on frenzied day
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> | Trading on the London Stock Exchange has been halted after a computer
> | system failed on one of the most frantic days of trading so far this year.
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> | FTSE 100: trading on the London Stock Exchange halted after computer
> | systems failed
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> | In an embarrassment for the LSE, the exchange said that no orders can be
> | entered or executions of those trades occur. The LSE plans to bring back
> | trading in a “controlled way’’, but couldn't say how long that will take.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/money/2008/09/08/bcnlse408.xml
Update:
"The London Stock Exchange Group PLC said Tuesday that a software glitch - and
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not high trading volumes - was to blame for a seven-hour shutdown that angered
customers on one of the busiest days of the year on world equity markets."
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h7qZJLteXf0POgW7sQvvo3ze7oXw
Microsoft needs to rip down its "get the facts" pages. It's false advertising.
Maybe the ASA should be informed.
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"There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally signals
publicly -- and their customers are using it..." --Paul DeGroot, a Directions
On Microsoft analyst.
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