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Global Financial Service Disruptions
London Metal Exchange
securities exchange · GB · UK · The London Metal Exchange
UnexplainedStatus: resolvedTier 1Severity 2 of 5Evidence confidence: lowAnalyst-verified
The LME delayed the start of trading by about an hour on 30 Jan 2026, as mentioned in Bloomberg coverage of its later March outage. Details of the cause were not retrieved.
- First disruption
- Jan 30
- First public signal
- Jan 30 (LME notice of delayed open)
- Acknowledged
- Jan 30
- Restored
- Jan 30
- Duration
- 1 hours
- DFX first recorded
- Nov 5 14:58 UTC
What was restricted
tradingScope: sector wide
Start of electronic trading delayed by about one hour.
Cause, kept in separate layers
- What the institution said
- Not retrieved
- DFX classification
- Unexplained (cyber: unconfirmed)
- Conflicting reports
- Known only from a passing mention in later coverage.
Evidence
- Bloomberg (via Bloomberg Government) · 2026-03-16