The decentralized smart contract platform Fantom (FTM) continued its resurgent rally to the tune of 50% on Monday, despite a temporary network outage that saw the blockchain stop producing blocks for seven hours. Fantom emerged among the top 100 in the market cap rankings in January — eventually goingRead More →
Shale to the rescue? Not right away, but the jump in oil prices Monday following a weekend attack on Saudi Arabia’s production facilities will likely be a boon to U.S. shale producers, who do stand to benefit, particularly if the outages prove long-lasting, analysts said. See: Why the Saudi oilRead More →
Gold futures headed solidly higher on Monday after an attack on Saudi Arabian oil production sent oil prices skyrocketing and investors turning to haven assets, including bonds and precious metals. December gold GCZ19, +0.66% on Comex gained $9.70, or 0.7%, to $1,509.20 an ounce, after registering on Friday a weeklyRead More →
Getty Images People walk past the logo of the London Stock Exchange A fault at the London Stock Exchange prevented blue-chip British companies from trading on Friday for over an hour, the longest such outage in 8 years. What was called a “technical software issue” kept FTSE 100 UKX, +0.47%Read More →
Technical problems plagued some Target Corp. stores again Sunday, a day after a computer outage knocked out many of its cash registers. Sunday’s problems were not internal, Target TGT, -0.58% said in a statement, which blamed problems at an NCR Corp. NCR, -3.33% data center, which prevented credit-Read More →
© Reuters. An abandoned shopping cart sits at a Target store after a computer glitch prevented customers from checking out, in Plymouth Meeting By Ishita Palli (Reuters) – Target Corp (NYSE:) on Saturday said its payment registers were back online after a systems outage stopped customers in the United StatesRead More →
Target TGT, -0.58% has experienced a global computer system outage, according to reports on Twitter TWTR, -0.52% . Customers across the country have reported that Target employees were advising them that the retailer’s payment system was down, causing long lines to form in many locations. Based on reports from socialRead More →
Salesforce.com Inc.’s outlook will be closely watched when it reports results from a seasonally weak quarter on Tuesday, with a large service outage expected to trim some of the results from the current period. is expected to show it powered through one of its seasonally weaker quarters with solid resultsRead More →
