Stocks end lower as UK hit by global IT outage

LONDON, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Amid a global tech outage causing chaos in multiple industries across the United Kingdom (UK), British stocks decreased on Friday, with the benchmark FTSE 100 Index down by 0.60 percent, or 49.17 points, to close at 8,155.72 points.

Transport, financial services, healthcare and businesses in the UK were seriously disrupted throughout the day, and CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity giant was at the heart of the global technical failure.