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Protest at the London Stock Exchange? Don't make me laugh

Spy took some strange pleasure this week from the mastermind protesters who thought that by chaining themselves to the front door of the London Stock Exchange and stopping people from getting in this would somehow stop the market trading.

1) It wouldn’t.

2) The recent spate of outages shows the LSE is perfectly capable of bringing trading to a halt on its own.

(Evening Standard)

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