What is the london stock exchange?
“Hello, my name is Mark Griffith. I’m very briefly going to explain in the next two minutes what the London Stock Exchange is. Shares have been traded in London for several centuries, and the London Stock Exchange is the world’s oldest continuously running major stock exchange, at the moment. And both London and New York are the only major stock exchanges which have not been closed due to war or violent revolution in the last two centuries. Slightly confusingly, the London Stock Exchange these days tends to refer to itself as the ISE, the International Stock Exchange, but everybody still calls it the London Stock Exchange. Of course, if you’re trading it you have to consider trading the European daytime, and if you’re somewhere like New York or Chicago, you have to bear in mind, therefore, that the London exchange opens at around three or four in the morning, your time, and will close right about lunch time your time. So you have to bear that in mind. Since 1986, the London Stock Excha
