London Stock Exchange (LSE) - kaput/borked/fudged/broken!

edesignuk

Moderator emeritus

Original poster

• Sep 8, 2008

• #1

The London Stock Exchange has suspended trading due to a technical problem that has affected its trading system.
A spokesperson said "connectivity issues" meant traders could not connect with the LSE trading platform.
The problems mean that no share orders have gone through, the LSE said, but it is working to restore the system fully as quickly as possible.

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BBC.

It's been down all day, oooops.

 

bigandy

macrumors G3

• Sep 8, 2008

• #2

Frankly, I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often.

 

mkrishnan

Moderator emeritus

• Sep 8, 2008

• #3

edesignuk said:

It's been down all day, oooops.

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I didn't realize the LSE used AT&T's 3G network for connectivity? 😱 😀

 

Q

Queso

Suspended

• Sep 8, 2008

• #4

But isn't Patch Tuesday tomorrow? 😛

 

arkitect

macrumors 604

• Sep 8, 2008

• #5

mkrishnan said:

I didn't realize the LSE used AT&T's 3G network for connectivity? 😱 😀

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It's worse… they use BT Broadband.

😀😀

 

mkrishnan

Moderator emeritus

• Sep 8, 2008

• #6

arkitect said:

It's worse… they use BT Broadband.

😀😀

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Eeegads, that is worse. 🙁 It's cruel.

 

iJohnHenry

macrumors P6

• Sep 8, 2008

• #7

😱 Did something ugly happen to the Far-East markets this morning???

Responding to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac???











🙄

 

Q

Queso

Suspended

• Sep 8, 2008

• #8

Apparently it's working again 🙂

I knew they shouldn't have let Gordon Brown near it 😛

 

Church

macrumors regular

• Sep 8, 2008

• #9

I guess that kind of stuff tends to happen when a country thinks it's better than America. I.e. Russia, Germany, iraq, japan, Greenland (just because). You're next England! 😉

 

arkitect

macrumors 604

• Sep 8, 2008

• #10

Church said:

I guess that kind of stuff tends to happen when a country thinks it's better than America. I.e. Russia, Germany, iraq, japan, Greenland (just because). You're next England! 😉

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^^^^^^^^^^^
Nomination for most nonsensical post of the day…

Americans… 🙄

 

edesignuk

Moderator emeritus

Original poster

• Sep 8, 2008

• #11

Church said:

I guess that kind of stuff tends to happen when a country thinks it's better than America. I.e. Russia, Germany, iraq, japan, Greenland (just because). You're next England! 😉

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Uh huh, riiiiiiiiiight.

😕 🙄

 

mkrishnan

Moderator emeritus

• Sep 8, 2008

• #12

I thought Greenland was technically a part of Denmark and not an independent nation?

 

a456

macrumors 6502a

• Sep 8, 2008

• #13

Another Stock Market Crash!!

 

iBlue

macrumors Core

• Sep 8, 2008

• #14

Church said:

I guess that kind of stuff tends to happen when a country thinks it's better than America. I.e. Russia, Germany, iraq, japan, Greenland (just because). You're next England! 😉

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bigandy

macrumors G3

• Sep 8, 2008

• #15

iBlue said:

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Very well said.

 

QuantumLo0p

macrumors 6502a

• Sep 8, 2008

• #16

In view of this "incident", I wonder how they are obtaining five nines uptime from from their Microsoft .Net platform?

😀

 

Chappers

macrumors 68020

• Sep 9, 2008

• #17

Church said:

I guess that kind of stuff tends to happen when a country thinks it's better than America. I.e. Russia, Germany, iraq, japan, Greenland (just because). You're next England! 😉

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Obviously whilst being so great, it wasn't deemed important to teach you grammar, capitalisation and geography in your adopted language.😉

 

Peterkro

macrumors 68020

• Sep 9, 2008

• #18

QuantumLo0p said:

In view of this "incident", I wonder how they are obtaining five nines uptime from from their Microsoft .Net platform?

😀

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Much arse covering being done by Microsoft PR people as we speak (so to speak).