The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has launched a consultation on potential changes to the market structure, including trading hours.
The consultation follows a joint proposal by the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and the Investment Association (IA) for European exchanges to review trading hours to improve the wellbeing, culture and diversity across their member firms and benefit market structure. The LSE has proposed the following times for consideration: • 08:30 - 15:30 London time • 08:30 - 16:00 London time • 09:00 - 16:00 London time • 09:00 - 16:30 London time • Maintain the current time of 08:00 - 16:30 London time Equity markets in Europe are currently open for eight-an...
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