BLOOMBERG Bloomberg Go October 7, 2016
Plunge in the pound since the brexit referendum with traders saying the slump exacerbated Like Computers initiated sell orders. David lets bring in guy johnson from london. Exactly what happened . Midnight and london, liquidity light and everybody asleep and suddenly this happened. We dropped like a stone. Data shows we got to 11841, some platforms had a 113 handle and the bit off a spread blowout 250 times what it normally is. Normally this traits on a wafer and it got blown out. What caused it, we do not know. Like liquidity, a combination of alcos and maybe fat fingers causing this to happe...