Cutting of Bloomberg Terminal Traders

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Betoomberg, markets and media services, reviews of traders to enter live prices and preventing the United Kingdom from violating the auction of government debt.

Wednesday morning users complained that the 28,000-year-old Bloomberg terminal service was operating with significant delays and the lack of live prices prevented businessmen.

Traders and investors have become highly reliable than the company’s different black and orange terminals since the factor was established by Michael Bloomberg.

The terminal carries prices and analysts on the world’s shares and bonds and is widely used by merchants and bankers, which makes it one of the main vessels of the global financial system.

“We said we did not trade. I can’t remember this level of work,” said a London-centric fund manager on Wednesday.

“You would bet in a match you can’t see the score or not.”

Extract, the United Kingdom has stopped the auction of government debt, extended the time offered by the Debt Management Department.

“We are waiting for the nearby time of the Auction offer window, which is subject to Bloomberg Systems Systems Subject to Bloomberg Systems,” DMO said.

Traders said that BloombergInstant messaging service – known as IB – still operated as normal. The company did not respond immediately to surveys for comment.

Bloomberg Help Table, Sent a message on Wednesday 9.55: “We are currently living in a global terminal issue, and our engineering group is actively working to determine and resolve the problem.”

“Sorry for the inconvenience, and I really really appreciate your patience and understanding of time,” he said.

Some market participants, until 10.15, were partially restored and lag were restored on Wednesday. However, an investor said it was a mixed picture and some terminals and some were in their institutions.

A portfolio manager in a large asset manager, not only trading, but the flow of work, not only the flow of work.

“It’s so nervous … I can’t keep my day up to date. I have a presentation where I need the plateau tables based on work, not trade,” he said.

Additional report by Mari Novak and Rob Smith