The Bloomberg Outage: Systems Overwhelmed by Excessive Volumes of Network Traffic; Users Left in the Dark

Sell-side and buy-side firms discuss today's Bloomberg outage

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We were impacted by the outage and received a call from...Bloomberg, who apologized and indicated that it was a server issue. - Head of a French asset manager

According to reports, the issues started around 3:30 a.m. ET, with services being largely restored by 6 a.m. At 11 a.m., Bloomberg tweeted that service had been fully restored to all customers. 

Sources tell Inside Market Data (IMD) that the outage appears to have been global and affected many if not all of the provider's clients, though Bloomberg's other data products, such as its B-Pipe datafeed and back-office data services, were not affected by the outage.

At 5:13 a.m., Bloomberg tweeted

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