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outage

noun as in interruption of service

noun as in suspension of operation

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Two rounds of Santa Ana winds are forecast to hit Southern California this week, bringing the potential for downed trees and isolated power outages across Los Angeles and elsewhere.

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A power outage has caused major disruption to all rail services at Leeds Station.

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U.S. tech stocks mostly gained in premarket action, while a CME Group outage halted trading in index futures and other key contracts.

It is perhaps lucky that the outage happened on Black Friday—a trading day, but one without major market catalysts and likely to have only limited volumes in a holiday-shortened week.

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U.S. futures were up while global markets were mixed amid a fallout from trade interruption caused by an outage on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

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