A series of airstrikes were held on rebel neighborhoods. Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova gets a two year suspension and a drug test. She says that she will fight back, despite using the band substance. Banned substance. I am a sarah kelly, thank you for joining us. We begin with breaking news from israel, where three people are now confirmed dead after a gunman went on a shooting spree in central tel aviv. The two shooters targeted a busy shopping district within the heart of the city. Police shot and arrested one of the assailants when he ran out of ammunition. Several others are believed to have been injured in the attack, many, seriously. And we have our correspondent tony cramer on the line from jerusalem. Tonya, what more do we know about this attack . At least two gunmen opened fire in this area, and was able to move from place to place. This was at the sarona market area. From a military standpoint, it is a soft target, people out further evenings. It is just across the stre
Lot of political crosswinds depending on which way they choose to do it. Jonathan a big story for us in fx volatility as well. David the big story comes up in just about 45 minutes from now. The ecb will be announcing its latest Monetary Policy decision. We will break that down when it happens. Well bring you to Mario Draghis News Conference. First, lets take a look at those markets. Jonathan a look at the market futures. In europe, it is a decent session with the ftse up. The dax is marginally negative. It is sitting very close to the january 2016 high. No drama and the market. No drama in the fx market, that is the story. A boring currency market implied volatility. It is approaching new load for the year. The boring one so far as the euro dollar currency cross. It is stable and stronger today. We have been in a very tight range. We trade stronger ahead of draghi. Four days of gains for crude. A 46 and 4627. In the bond market, we come in at basis points to 2. 26 . Fulltime year bond
Performance. Roche getting shot in the arm as they raise guidance on hopes of a strong drug pipeline. Good morning, everyone. It is thursday. Its ecb day and the stoxx europe 600 index is hugging the flat line after the uninspiring hand over from the u. S. And asia. A couple of stories to tell you about but lets tell you what the european markets are doing one by one. The dax up by just a little bit. The cac 40 is down by just a touch. Overall not a whole lot of movement. Now Strong Demand in europe and china boosted profits over at daimler. Also roche up by 1. 3 . Publicists complaining about the business saying its simply not good enough. Angelo american down by 3. 3 . Lets talk about ebay. It is on solid ground after its split from paypal. The stock surging about 9 in after hours. This is after topping wall street earnings projections and raising its outlook for the year. It on thes to grow without paypal. 2 million new active buyers on the site in the Third Quarter. Still their pro
Regionally. Investors look to a News Conference this morning from. Ario draghi the European Central bank kept its Interest Rates unchanged and traders and investors are waiting to see if draghi signals a willingness for more quantitative easing. We are one day away from that august labor report. Lets get you started with the five things you need to know this morning. Matt miller is here, watching the markets. I think we ought to begin with the ecb. I mentioned the ecb held steady as expected. Draghi has the opportunity to make news this morning. He will be asked about quantitative easing. Asked about the inflation outlook, about china and global markets. Lets find out from ons nichols what the world expects. Hans i was in frank for yesterday at a big banking conference. Everyone is wondering what is going to happen in terms of quantitative easing. Is mario draghi going to hint it could be longer . September 2016, that is when it is expected to end. When we get these predictions for the
Rescinding the carbon laws. , data in the u. S. , 8 30 a. M u. S. Jobless claims. The Bloomberg Consumer comfort number at 9 45 a. M. P. M. , the Consumer Credit number four june. Earnings, before the bell, wendys, duke energy, and amc. Bell, news corporation, not 21st century foxconn with the unit that owns the wall street journal. I cant keep track of the names. It is the wall street journal, essentially. News corp. 19thcentury . This is what Rupert Murdoch loves. Maybe newspapers can make money on their own. With a pay wall. Cbs, lions gate, and solarcity as well. Bank of england comes out with its Rate Decision at 7 00 a. M. , ecb comes out at 7 45. Of the important out press conference for governor mario draghi. That will be a remarkable press conference. A data check. Stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities. Futures bounce after a tough number of days. Interesting to see how the equity markets in the u. S. React after what we healed from frankfurt. Oil south of 97. Vix, 16. 37. Ge