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'Technical Glitch':
28 Jun 2013 14:31:00
CSE halts trading temporarily due to ATS issue, trading only last 1 hour 15 minutes


Jun 28, 2013 (SLBO) - Sri Lanka's only capital market Colombo Stock Exchange today halted its trading temporarily quoting an Automated Trading System Issue.

Officials said that they found a a mismatch that has arisen in certain client balances displayed on the Automated Trading System (ATS) during the pre-open session (9.00 am - 9.30 am) on 28th June 2013,"

Similarly CSE also issued a statement to market participants and whilst after rectfying the issue market commenced its trading at 1:15 p.m. and closed at 2:30 p.m. as usual.

During the day only one crossing was reported with 1 million Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings (AHUN) shares changing hands at Rs.75 per share at 1:18:01 p.m. just after 3 minuts and a second since market commenced trading.

A total of Rs.265.92 million turnover recorded with 12.7 million shares changing hands via 2,176 trades. All Share Price Index (ASPI) closed at 6135.08 points rising by 23.72 points by a 0.39% and S&P SL 20 closed at 3440.74 points rising by 14.26 points or 0.42%.

Earlier also on September 19th 2011 CSE entirely halted trading for the day quoting a 'technical glitch' for the first time in history soon after CSE switched in to Millenium IT developed Automated Trading System 7 version.