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United Kingdom stock market historical data

1,284 listings across LSE. Daily history back to first listing, minute bars from capture forward, one page per symbol.

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LSE trading day, Monday to Friday

08:00 to 16:30 GMT07:00 to 15:30 UTC

FTSE 100, FTSE 250, priced in GBP, settling T+2.

1801
Founded in London
1,700
Listed companies
1,284
Symbol pages on DataCedar

United Kingdom key facts

  • United Kingdom's stock market trades on LSE, priced in GBP; its headline indices are FTSE 100, FTSE 250.
  • London Stock Exchange, founded 1801 in London, trades 08:00 to 16:30 GMT/BST, closing auction to 16:35, Monday to Friday, regulated by Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
  • DataCedar covers 1,284 United Kingdom listings with a price history page and an API call each.
  • Daily bars run back to each symbol's first sourced session; minute bars run from the day capture began for the symbol and are never backfilled.

About LSE

Full name
London Stock Exchange
Location
London, United Kingdom
Founded
1801
Operator
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
Regulator
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Trading hours
08:00 to 16:30 GMT/BST, closing auction to 16:35
Trading days
Monday to Friday
Time zone
Europe/London
Currency
GBP
Settlement
T+2 (T+1 planned for October 2027)
Ticker convention
Three or four letter codes (HSBA, SHEL, AZN); prices quoted in pence
Headline indices
FTSE 100, FTSE 250
Listed
about 1,700 listed companies on the Main Market and AIM (2025)
Market capitalisation
about USD 3.5 trillion (2025)
  • Traces its origins to Jonathan's Coffee House in 1698; formally constituted in 1801.
  • AIM, its growth market since 1995, has fewer listing requirements than the Main Market.
  • The FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 are the benchmarks; share prices are quoted in pence, not pounds.
  • LSEG licenses historical data; daily closing prices are widely redistributed.

About United Kingdom market data on DataCedar

United Kingdom trades on LSE, priced in GBP, and its headline indices are FTSE 100, FTSE 250. DataCedar stores one daily bar per trading session for every listing, back to the first session it can source, and one minute bar per trading minute from the day capture begins for that symbol, all under one schema and one API.

Every one of the 1,284 listings has a page with its returns, records and year by year table; pages with enough traded history are in the sitemap, the rest are reachable from the A to Z lists. Tell us which symbols you need; requests move the queue. See pricing and every exchange.

United Kingdom stock data by API

One call per symbol, the same schema on every exchange: timeframe 1Min to 1Day, adjustment raw or all, start and end. See the bars endpoint.

curl "https://api.datacedar.com/v3/stocks/1SN/bars?timeframe=1Day&adjustment=all&limit=50000" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"

ExchangesUnited Kingdom exchanges and how to get the data

Each exchange has its own page: trading hours, ticker convention, indices, and the symbols A to Z once it is live.

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United Kingdom market data

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