UPDATE: LSE resumes trade after technical glitch

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Trading in London was restarted at 12.15 after being suspended this morning following ‘technical glitches' on the LSE, the exchange says.

The LSE halted its SETS and SETSqx services as it investigated the problem, and says "uncrossing trades that took place in the opening auction are under investigation for possible cancellation". Updates can be found on the exchange's website, it says. The LSE moved its main market trading to the MillenniumIT system earlier this month. The Financial Times spoke to traders who said the opening auction had taken place but there was a problem with market data. Last week's LSE data problem centred on the data feeds that the LSE provides to distributors such as Thomson Reuters, Bloomb...

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