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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly and Anna Isaac

Microsoft to buy 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group

Information screen displaying the FTSE 100 at the London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange Group became the biggest riser on the FTSE 100 in early trading on Monday. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Microsoft will buy 4% of the London Stock Exchange as part of a multibillion-pound deal to work together on data analytics and cloud technology.

The US tech company will acquire the stake from a consortium of Blackstone and Thomson Reuters, and will take a seat on the board of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). The consortium previously sold the financial data company Refinitiv to LSEG in a £22bn takeover.

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