News and data company Bloomberg suffered an outage to its terminal for financial professionals on Wednesday, which disrupted customer activity, including delaying a UK gilt auction, according to the UK Debt Management Office and market sources.
“Due to the ongoing market-wide Bloomberg system issues, the bidding window for this morning’s auction of the 4% 2031 is being extended,” the DMO said.
DeItaone: BLOOMBERG TERMINAL OUTAGE HITS TRADERS
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Bloomberg, the markets data and media service, suffered widespread disruption on Wednesday morning that prevented traders from accessing live pricing and delayed an auction of UK government debt.
Users complained that the $28,0…
Traders and market sources reported that live pricing and market data was not functioning and screens were blank.
“My Bloomberg terminal is currently not working, only the chat function is still up,” a Bloomberg user told Reuters.
Bloomberg was yet to respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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A Bloomberg terminal outage during market hours? That’s like the stock market going blind. $28K a year and still not bulletproof-tough day for traders.
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When the #Bloomberg Terminal is down, and suddenly Excel, Google, and Twitter become your new market squad pic.twitter.com/tAQT9hfNxZ
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