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[fivemack]

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finance.yahoo.com



I don't think wide stock-market indices are supposed to wiggle with that sort of frequency; I assume it's a Bug at FTSE, since the charts from the BBC and Yahoo are essentially identical, but someone in London must be running around like a headless chicken trying to sort this out.

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[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Is this kind of error something one can take advantage of? I'd have thought companies offering spread-betting would have realised instantly that something was screwed up and voided all transactions.

Betfair probably didn't void all "Daily Close: Up or Down" bets. I dunno I haven't checked.