MUMBAI (Reuters) - Exchange operator BSE halted trading on Thursday morning across all of its markets, including shares, currencies and indexes due to a network outage, BSE said.
BSE later said all orders placed before the network outage would be cancelled.
The exchange operator said its network service vendor HCL Technologies Ltd
"Due to a network outage being currently faced, BSE has decided to close all markets," the exchange said in a statement sent via text message. "Once the network issue is resolved, the markets will restart."
A spokesman for the BSE told Reuters at 10:08 a.m. that trading would resume in a "few minutes," although trading had yet to resume as of 10:45 a.m.
HCL was not immediately reachable for comment.
(Reporting by Abhishek Vishnoi and Indulal PM; Writing by Rafael Nam; Editing by Shri Navaratnam and Eric Meijer)
