Europe's Traders Want Shorter Hours for Health, Diversity

  • 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. London trading is 2 hours more than New York
  • More family-friendly day seen as potential help for gender gap

A financial trader reacts as he monitors data on computer screens at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Photographer: Martin Leissl/Bloomberg

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Europe’s biggest buyers and sellers of equities say they should work a shorter day.