Frankfurt - Electronic share trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange's Xetra system was halted by a one-hour outage Monday, the second such glitch over the past three months. A spokeswoman said orders and sales could not be completed between 9.43 am and 10.40 am, but the cause of the interruption was not immediately known.
The Xetra system had a one-hour failure in September. The operators, Deutsche Boerse, blamed that outage on a network malfunction. Banks and brokers round the world trade over the computer system, which is Frankfurt's principal market.
The volume of traditional open-outcry share trading at the city stock exchange, also run by Boerse, is far lower.
