Traders from London to Singapore struggle as cyber outage disrupts business

FILE PHOTO: The headquarters of the European Energy Exchange is pictured during evening light in a centre-of-town high-rise office building in Leipzig, Germany April 25, 2021. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - Traders in oil, gas, power, stocks, currencies and bonds from London to Singapore struggled to operate on Friday as a global cyber outage hampered operations, companies, banks and trading sources said.

LSEG Group, which runs the London Stock Exchange, said its Workspace news and data platform suffered an outagethat affected users worldwide due to a "third-party global technical issue".