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Bloomberg financial markets data service hit by outage

Former Mayor of New York City Mike Bloomberg speaks at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha on May 20, 2025. [AFP]

Bloomberg, the financial data service used by traders around the world, was hit by an outage on Wednesday, briefly disrupting auctions of bonds in Europe.

The Bloomberg terminal is the crown jewel of the media empire founded by US billionaire Michael Bloomberg in 1981 and counts some 350,000 users worldwide.

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