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World Business Report

First broadcast 2016/10/07 22:32 GMT: Flash Crash Automated Trading Hits British Pound.

Duration: 27 minutes

on BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

Available for over a year

The value of the British Pound dived 6% in just two minutes in Asia on Friday, in a fall that has been blamed on automated trading by computers, a so called flash crash. Show more

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