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The problem encountered today by the Exchange was due to Bursa Malaysia being unable to process an information message arising from a disruption to real-time index feed from FTSE. This affected the dissemination of all equities and derivatives market data by Bursa Malaysia which resulted in the market being unable to view the market data. While trades and orders were not affected, Bursa Malaysia made the decision to halt both the equities and derivatives market from 12:19pm in order to maintain a fair and orderly market. The market resumed trading as normal for the afternoon session today although the pre-opening session was limited to 10 minutes.
Dato' Yusli Mohamed Yusoff, Chief Executive Officer of Bursa Malaysia said, "Our priority is to ensure that the market operates in a fair and orderly manner and there is minimal disruption to trading. We will commence with trading as normal tomorrow, 17 February 2009. However, all FBM indices will not be available via Bursa Malaysia until the Exchange has confirmed that the information message processing is in order."
