Bloomberg terminal suffers outage, delays UK gilt sale - UK DMO, traders

LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - 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.

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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