{"id":1049374,"date":"2026-11-14T11:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T05:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1049374"},"modified":"2026-11-14T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T05:38:23","slug":"microsoft-outage-gums-up-markets-forces-traders-to-use-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/14\/microsoft-outage-gums-up-markets-forces-traders-to-use-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft outage gums up markets, forces traders to use phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Outlook went dark on Rita Elkazzi just as a volatile week in markets was coming to an end. As swings in AI stocks and bonds kept traders on edge, the UBS Group AG execution-sales head for Australia and New Zealand was forced onto phones and alternative channels to communicate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a bit of a disaster and I can\u2019t believe still not resolved,\u201d said Sydney-based Elkazzi. \u201cIt means a lot more diligence on ensuring trade recaps et cetera are accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Outlook went dark on Rita Elkazzi just as a volatile week in markets was coming to an end. As swings in AI stocks and bonds kept traders on edge, the UBS Group AG execution-sales head for Australia and New Zealand was forced onto phones and alternative channels to communicate. \u201cIt\u2019s been a bit of a disaster and I can\u2019t believe still not resolved,\u201d said Sydney-based Elkazzi. \u201cIt means a lot more diligence on ensuring trade recaps et cetera are accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049375,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049374\/revisions\/1049375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}