Talk:London Stock Exchange

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is part of WikiProject London, an attempt to expand, improve and standardise the content and structure of articles related to London. If you would like to participate, you can improve the article attached to this page or sign up and contribute in a wider array of articles.
B	This article has been rated as b-Class on the quality scale.
High	This article has been rated as high-importance on the importance scale.

	Business and economics Portal This article is within the scope of the Business and Economics WikiProject.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received an importance rating on the assessment scale.

This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Organizations. If you would like to participate please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

Contents 1 Random Request 2 Picture 3 Trading hours 4 Infobox 5 London Stock Exchange Group plc 6 Removed unsourced statement 7 Correct motto is "dictum meum pactum"

[edit] Random Request

I'm moving this post from the article. It probably shouldn't be here, I have no objection to its deletion.Zenosparadox 17:02, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

"Can I have names of Indian listed companies in London stock exchange. Sometimes these Indian listed companies are known as GDRs. Thanks Best Wishes, Sunder Thadani mailto:sunder360@yahoo.com Phone:91.22.24459165"

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a research service. DJR (T) (WC) 17:49, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

If possible, someone should update today's news about the second bid from Nasdaq. Egc

I have undated with the news that the offer has been rejected. 145.253.108.22 15:48, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

Is there a reason why a picture of the NYSE is shown in this article? I was going to delete it, but I figured there might be a good reason. Betaeleven 19:14, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Looks much better. Betaeleven 14:19, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trading hours

The standard equity trading hours are 0800-1630 - can this be placed somewhere? Sparky132 14:30, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox

At the moment, the Exchange's motto is not displayed on the actual page -- and has not been displayed since the infobox was inserted -- despite the fact that the text has been placed in the infobox.

Is this a matter of coding? or is it that the mechanics of the site do not respond to a class designated "company slogan"?

BTW, it is very definitely a "motto" and it is most definitely not a "slogan" -- if, for no other reason than the fact that it appears in the Exchange's own Coat of Arms which it received in 1923. [1]

Can somebody please adjust the coding so that it actually can be seen on the page; and at the same time, replace the incorrect "slogan" with the correct "motto".Lindsay658 21:55, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] London Stock Exchange Group plc

Now that the LSE has completed the takeover of Borsa Italiana, I would like to propose a change in this article. The new LSE is known as London Stock Exchange Group plc reflecting ownership of the LSE and BI. I propose that the LSE article is solely about the LSE and a new article titled London Stock Exchange Group plc should reflect the group as a whole. This would involve the relocation of some info to the new page, which now exists. I suggest that the Alliances section be removed from this article as they are now part of the LSE Group, rather than the LSE itself. Any thoughts and objections, then please let me know. Darkieboy236 12:56, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

I've changed the infobox on this article to Infobox Exchange to reflect that this article is about an exchange and not a holding company. Arsenikk 16:40, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Good idea...that should help people to distinguish between the LSE and the Group that owns both the LSE and the Borsa Italiana. As the Group grows, the differences will become more enhanced. This is a similar format to other British groups listed on Wiki where they own subsiaries. In future, all info specifically relating to the LSE will be on the LSE page and information relating to the parent company, ie the Group, will appear on its particular page. Darkieboy236 19:16, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

If there are no objections, then I might remove the proposal to merge the LSE and the LSE Group plc into one article as they both justify seperate listings. The two seperate articles make it more functional if the LSE Group plc buys another Exchange. Darkieboy236 12:36, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed unsourced statement

I removed the following footnote from the article:

A piece of trivia: Upon occasion, financial companies will decide to use this motto. They only know the English "My word is my bond"; and, due to the difficulty of locating the original Latin motto (from which the English version is taken), produce a fake coat of arms for their business embellished with the Latin motto verbum meum pactum. At first sight, this seems O.K. -- for this Latin motto also means "My word is my bond" -- but, sadly for them, whilst dictum meum pactum very definitely means "The words that come out of my mouth are my bond", the contrasting motto verbum meum pactum, in this context, means "The words that I write on a page are my bond"; and, as a consequence, they are warning their customers that "Nothing that I say can be trusted".

Firstly, it is unsourced. Secondly, it is by its own admission "trivia". Johntex\^talk 17:05, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Correct motto is "dictum meum pactum"

In relation to the entirely appropriate correction made on 24 November 2007 by Nsorelli, the actual motto of the stock exchange (as it appears on the Stock Exchanges own coat of arms -- see [2]) is dictum meum pactum. It is not, and it never was verbum meum pactum.

The English version of it motto, "my word is my bond", is well known; and the correct Latin version, dictum meum pactum, is its precise equivalent.

In a more precise analysis, when the correct expression dictum meum pactum is compared with the incorrect verbum meum pactum, the first delivers the intended meaning, and the second is wrong. Dictum meum pactum means "the words that I utter (the words that come out of my mouth) are my bond"; as distinct from verbum meum pactum, which means "the words that I write on the page are my bond" — and, therefore, is something that implicitly signals that "nothing that I say can be trusted".Lindsay658 (talk) 05:32, 25 November 2007 (UTC)