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Microsoft outage disrupts Outlook and Teams, shares fall

A global Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook and Teams for more than a day, leaving users without email and chat. Microsoft shares fell while cybersecurity stocks gained, and the company was still working on a fix.

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Microsoft was still struggling to restore access to its flagship software about half a day after the outage began. Users could not reach email and chat services, in one of the most serious disruptions the tech giant has seen in recent memory.

The outage affected Outlook and Teams, and the disruption lasted more than a day. Microsoft shares fell while cybersecurity stocks gained.

Microsoft$523.88down −1.84%over 1 month
$555.80$507.1214 Oct13 Nov

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US stock futures were moving ahead of an inflation report, a release that would close a dramatic week. That week had seen growing bets on Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes, wagers that the central bank will raise its benchmark rate.

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