What's going on with the FTSE today? (7Nov)

uk.ichart.yahoo.com/b?s=%5EFTSE
What started happening at 16.00ish? The values are jumping up and down by 100+ points??

It’s a technical hitch. Same problems on Bloomberg. The futures price is holding steady and showing the FTSE down about 1%.

So they’re probably on the line to the support centre in Bangalore about now?
(Pressing random buttons in the hope that gets them to speak to an operator).

UK: Hello…yes…our stock market is broken.
India: Sir do you have a customer reference number
UK: I’m losing millions here!
India: Sir I’m going to put you through to our web conferencing facilities where you can chat with other stock market customers

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7083851.stm

Looks like they were on hold for an hour and a half!