The debate over slashing stock market hours is a "storm in a tea-cup", according to Xavier Rolet, the former chief executive of the London Stock Exchange.
Rolet, who headed the LSE for more than eight years, told Financial News that the ongoing debate about shorter market hours is “irrelevant” as human trading is on its way out — thanks to computer servers and snazzy algorithms taking over once-frantic trading floors over the last 30 years.
