MUMBAI, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- India's National Stock Exchange (NSE) halted trading due to technical glitch on Wednesday morning.
The leading stock exchange of Asia's third largest economy with close to 1,800 listed companies having a cumulative market capitalization of 2.5 trillion U.S. dollars said that it was working on restoring the systems as soon as possible with its two telecom service providers.
"We have received communication from both the telecom service providers that there are issues with their links due to which there is an impact on NSE system," NSE said on a social microblogging site.
NSE's benchmark index Nifty was frozen at 14,820.45-level up 112.65 points or 0.77 per cent, since the trading was suspended at 11.40 AM local time.
All open orders on NSE - including equity, futures and options has been cancelled by the exchange.
India's other stock exchange - Bombay Stock Exchange continued to have normal trading across all its segment. Enditem