Blackout at the London Stock Exchange.

As a result of a computer crash, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) was closed for nearly eight hours on April 5, 2000. On that day, the last day of the tax year, 12 million private investors were unable to sell shares to minimize their tax bill, and although the market extended trading hours, many br...

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Published in:	Economist Vol. 355; no. 8165; pp. 80 - 81
Format:	Article
Published:	Economist Newspaper Limited April 8 2000
Subjects:	London Stock Exchange Investments > Data processing Information storage & retrieval systems Stock exchanges
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost