The Malta Stock Exchaqnge had to stop trading for some time on Friday after a computer malfunctioned in Germany.

The Xetra equities platform froze for 72 minutes, affecting trading in over 1,000 stocks at Deutsche Boerse in Frankfurt.

The malfunction forced Deutsche Boerse to suspend activity on its Eurex Bonds platform and on three equity venues that it hosts for the national stock exchanges of Bulgaria, Malta and the Cayman Islands. All three markets run on Xetra platforms hosted in Frankfurt.

Deutsche Boerse also operates the national stock exchanges of Austria, Ireland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. However, none of these markets were affected.

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