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London Stock Exchange works overnight to repair hardware after trading outages

LSE says hardware, not software, caused systems to fail this time

Trading should resume as normal after cause of outage found
Trading should resume as normal after cause of outage found Photo: Chris Ratcliffe/Getty Images

The London Stock Exchange has worked overnight to fix a faulty hard-drive storage system it says was behind multiple trading outages on 5 December.

Small-cap traders were hit with two suspensions on the exchange yesterday, as the bourse encountered technical issues for the second time in as many months.

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