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

[edesignuk]

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.

BBC.

It's been down all day, oooops.

 

[bigandy]

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

 

[mkrishnan]

It's been down all day, oooops.

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

 

[Queso]

But isn't Patch Tuesday tomorrow?

 

[arkitect]

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

It's worse… they use BT Broadband.

 

[mkrishnan]

It's worse… they use BT Broadband.

Eeegads, that is worse. It's cruel.

 

[iJohnHenry]

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

Responding to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac???

 

[Queso]

Apparently it's working again

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

 

[Church]

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]

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!

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

Americans…

 

[edesignuk]

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!

Uh huh, riiiiiiiiiight.

 

[mkrishnan]

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

 

[a456]

Another Stock Market Crash!!

 

[iBlue]

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]

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Very well said.

 

[QuantumLo0p]

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

 

[Chappers]

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!

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

 

[Peterkro]

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

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