Qualla: London Stock Exchange https://qualla.com/london-stock-exchange en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/london-stock-exchange-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: London Stock Exchange https://qualla.com/london-stock-exchange London Stock Exchange: Introduction https://qualla.com/london-stock-exchange/ Photo credit Kaihsu Tai, CC BY-SA 3.0. Auctions in 17th-century London ran for the length of a candle. The bidding was open for as long as a fixed piece of tallow stood and burned. When the flame went out, the deal was done. They called it selling 'by inch of candle.' At Jonathan's Coffee-House on Change Alley in the 1690s, a broker named John Castaing started keeping a list of commodity prices — salt, coal, paper, exchange rates — published a few days a week. It wasn't yet a stock exchange. It was a coffee house with a list. From this list, this candle, and these brokers — banned from the actual Royal Exchange for what was politely called their 'rude manners' — the London Stock Exchange would grow. As of July 2024, it has a total listed market capitalisation of around US$3.4 trillion.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/london-stock-exchange-wp/gcpv-london-stock-exchange-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full London Stock Exchange: Exchange Alley and the South Sea Bubble https://qualla.com/london-stock-exchange/ Photo credit Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827) and Augustus Charles Pugin (1762–1832) (after) John Bluck (fl. 1791–1819), Joseph Constantine Stadler (fl. 1780–1812), Thomas Sutherland (1785–1838), J. Hill, and Harraden (aquatint engravers)[1], Public domain. By the early 18th century, the brokers thrown out of the Royal Exchange had set up shop in the streets and coffee houses around it — Exchange Alley, Change Alley, the lanes between Cornhill and Lombard Street, conveniently close to the Bank of England. Parliament tried to regulat...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/london-stock-exchange-wp/gcpv-london-stock-exchange-exchange-alley-and-the-south-sea-bubble.mp3 0:06 2 full London Stock Exchange: Capel Court and Capital Punishment https://qualla.com/london-stock-exchange/ Photo credit Public domain. William Hammond laid the first foundation stone for a permanent building at Capel Court on 18 May 1801. By 30 December that year, 'The Stock Exchange' was incised on the entrance. The first codified rule book emerged from a General Purpose Committee report in February 1812. The E...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/london-stock-exchange-wp/gcpv-london-stock-exchange-capel-court-and-capital-punishment.mp3 0:06 3 full London Stock Exchange: Closed for Six Months https://qualla.com/london-stock-exchange/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. When World War I broke out at the end of July 1914, the Exchange closed almost immediately. Prices had surged on fears that foreign banks would call in loans. The August Bank Holiday was extended by Parliament to prevent a run on the banks. The committee shut the trading floor en...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/london-stock-exchange-wp/gcpv-london-stock-exchange-closed-for-six-months.mp3 0:06 4 full London Stock Exchange: The Bomb in the Visitors' Gallery https://qualla.com/london-stock-exchange/ Photo credit Adrian Pingstone, Public domain. On the morning of 20 July 1990, the Provisional Irish Republican Army telephoned Reuters with a warning. They said a bomb had been placed at the London Stock Exchange. Police evacuated the relevant area. At 8:49 a.m., the bomb went off in the men's toilets behind the visitors' ga...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/london-stock-exchange-wp/gcpv-london-stock-exchange-the-bomb-in-the-visitors-gallery.mp3 0:06 5 full London Stock Exchange: Big Bang and What Followed https://qualla.com/london-stock-exchange/ Photo credit Kaihsu Tai, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 27 October 1986, the UK financial markets were deregulated in a single coordinated set of changes. The phrase 'Big Bang' was coined for it. Fixed commission charges were abolished. The distinction between stockjobbers (who held inventory) and stockbrokers (who served customers...

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