Retail REIT Real Estate Income (New York Stock Exchange:O) and healthcare real estate investment trust Omega Healthcare Investors (New York Stock Exchange: OHI) ended in the red after seven consecutive sessions of gains as a major technical outage affected companies that use Microsoft systems, impacting the broader stock market.
TO important Microsoft Disruption triggered the “blue screen of death” on several Windows systems, while users around the world were unable to access Microsoft 365 services. The outage was caused by a flaw in an update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor cybersecurity platform.
Financial stocks were generally in the red, as was the broader stock market.
Real estate income finished 0.28% below the previous close at $57.58, while Omega Healthcare fell 0.056% to end at $35.91.
Both stocks had been gaining ground in the run-up to quarterly earnings results, as well as on increased odds of a rate cut in September.
Realty Income had added 9.08% over the course of the last seven trading days, while OHI increased by 6.85%.