The Blue Chip Stocks London Stock Exchange In 2019, suffered an almost two-hour outage that hit FTSE 100 and midcap stocks, which LSEG said was caused by a technical software issue | Photo: Bloomberg
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) faced a temporary suspension in trading for smaller stocks on Thursday due to an incident causing disruption. However, there were no interruptions in trading for blue chip shares.
Blue Chip Stocks Unaffected as London Stock
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) confirmed that the FTSE 100, FTSE 250, and International Order Book securities, Blue Chip Stocks which include shares listed in London by overseas companies, were operating normally.
Following the incident, shares in CRH and Deliveroo were among those not available for trading on the London market. This marked the first interruption in trading on the LSE since 2019.
LSEG provided no specific details regarding the incident in its statement and declined to comment further when contacted by Reuters.
Blue Chip Stocks Share Price
The FTSE 100 closed down 1.2% on that day. Fiona Cincotta, a senior markets analyst at City Index, stated, “(The incident) will catch the attention of investors, people will want to have a quick answer to what was going on in order to maintain confidence.” She added, “The quicker we can get some news on what caused the incident, Blue Chip Stocks Share Price the quicker the market will be able to move on. We may see a little bit of volatility at the open tomorrow.”
In 2019, the London Stock Exchange experienced an outage of nearly two hours that impacted the FTSE 100 and midcap stocks, which LSEG attributed to a technical software issue.
Blue Chip Stocks Companies
The incident on Thursday occurred during a busy day in the corporate earnings season. LSEG’s own shares, listed on the FTSE 100, traded regularly and closed up 1.88% after the release of its results earlier in the day. Blue Chip Stocks Companies Thomson Reuters, a shareholder in LSEG since 2021, owns Reuters News. LSEG also pays Reuters for news stories.