Stocks Drop as Outages Add to Tech-Sector Woes: Markets Wrap 4 minutes (Bloomberg) — Global equities extended declines as a pullback in megacap technology stocks threatened to escalate amid widespread technical outages that followed disruptions across Microsoft Corp.’s online services. Europe’s Stoxx 600 index lost 0.5%, falling for a fifth day, on track for the longest losing streak since October. LSE Group Plc, which operates the London stock exchange, fell 1% after it reported global technical issues were preventing news from being published. Opening trades were delayed across several bourses. In US premarket trading, Microsoft shares dropped 2.8%, though it...