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Market Wrap: ISEQ edges higher as London Stock Exchange suffers another outage

The London Stock Exchange suffered its third outage, halting trading in about 2,000 smaller shares on Tuesday

Trading in smaller British companies was halted on the London stock exchange on Tuesday morning.

The ISEQ All Share Indx edged up slightly (+0.2 per cent) on Tuesday morning as smaller stocks trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) suffered from the third outage this year.

AIB led the Irish stock exchange higher, rising 1.34 per cent despite financial companies in Britain trading lower, with Barclays the worst hit dropping 2.4 per cent after one of the bank’s largest shareholders, Qatar Holding’s, moved to sell £510 million (€595 million) of ...