article_snippet.sent: Bloomberg said traders at asset management firm London & Capital were left 'twiddling traders at London & Capital thumbs' after traders at London & Capital terminals went down.
article_snippet.sent: Many of the bigger banks and financial institutions have  backup systems as well as alternative data suppliers, with products from competitors such as Thomson Reuters in place to avoid a major disruption.
article_snippet.sent: Market analyst Dan Davis tweeting: 'Currently printing 5,000 'I survived the great global Bloomberg outage of 2015' T-shirts.'
article_snippet.sent: And another Twitter user, barnejek, offered a solution to Greece's financial problems, posting: 'Come on @yanisvaroufakis and @tsipras_eu !
article_snippet.sent: With Bloomberg down, this is your chance to default and exit the EMU without any repercussions.'