Email Outage Forces Market Operator to Use Phones

As of Friday morning, Euronext, the European stock market operator, issued an advisory to its listed companies. They were instructed to utilize the telephone for communicating corporate information. This directive was a direct response to a significant outage affecting Microsoft's Outlook email service. The disruption in email communication necessitated a temporary shift to more traditional methods to ensure that essential corporate information could still be disseminated effectively. The company's proactive measure aimed to mitigate the impact of the technological failure on market operations and corporate transparency.