article_snippet.sent: For a massive computer glitch that halted trading in stock exchanges around the world yesterday is being blamed on a spilt fizzy drink.
article_snippet.sent: More than 300,000 screens suddenly went offline for several hours just after the start of trading, leaving brokers unable to work.
article_snippet.sent: Bloomberg blamed a 'combination of hardware and software failures in the network' for the outage, which was first reported at around 8.20am and lasted into the afternoon.
article_snippet.sent: Bloomberg added: 'Big banks will pump thousands of orders across Bloomberg, so the outage had quite an effect on the market.'
article_snippet.sent: Presumably overwhelmed, Bloomberg's helpline was not answering calls during the catastrophic glitch.
article_snippet.sent: A spokesman for Bloomberg said: 'Significant but not all parts of our network experienced a disruption. '
article_snippet.sent: We experienced a combination of hardware and software failures in the network, which caused an excessive volume of network traffic. '
article_snippet.sent: This led to customer disconnections as a result of the machines being overwhelmed. '
article_snippet.sent: We discovered the root cause quickly, isolated the faulty hardware, and restarted the software.
article_snippet.sent: We are reviewing We multiple redundant systems, which failed to prevent this disruption.
highlights_snippet.sent: Huge computer glitch prevented deals in stock exchanges across the world .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Bloomberg down for several hours just after trading began this morning .
  