Swedish traders press Nasdaq for shorter hours, more work-life balance

Nasdaq Inc. is facing calls from Swedish traders to trim trading hours on the biggest stock market in the Nordics for improved work-life balance and to attract new talent.
Stockholm. | Photo: TT News Agency/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
Stockholm. | Photo: TT News Agency/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
By Jonas Ekblom / Bloomberg

The exchange in Stockholm has the world’s longest trading session, along with many of its European peers. But it’s in Sweden where traders have begun to come out publicly to try and sway the bourse through interviews in local media — and one even wrote a book. 

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