It is not yet clear when trading will start again. Euronext does announce that in that case there will in any case be a so-called pre-opening phase of at least 15 minutes. A spokeswoman was unable to provide additional comment.
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It is the biggest disruption at Euronext in two years. On October 29, 2018, trading on the Euronext stock exchanges was halted after a technical problem with so-called ‘market monitoring tools’. In September last year, Euronext temporarily halted trading in stock options on the stock exchanges in Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris.
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Currently, trading in all stocks and derivatives has come to a halt. Trading on the Oslo stock exchange, also part of the Euronext collective, has not been affected by the problems.
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Earlier this month, trading on the Tokyo stock exchange was suspended for one day. That was the biggest failure ever for the world’s third-largest securities market. The problems there were caused by a hardware failure, when the switch to backup systems failed.
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