The London Metal Exchange halted the opening of its LMEselect electronic trading platform on Friday after a technical problem, sending brokers a notice and pushing the start of trading back by roughly an hour. The exchange told Reuters in an emailed statement: "Due to a technical issue there is a delay to the opening of LMEselect." Trading resumed at 02:00 GMT, or 10:00 a.m. Hong Kong time, when the platform got underway belatedly. The exchange normally runs LMEselect from 1 a.m. to 7 p.m. London time and is owned by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing. Longbridge characterized the interruption as "the second significant exchange failure incident in two months," a claim that will need confirmation against records of earlier platform outages.

Source: Mint January 30, 2026 13:05 UTC