A vote thats testing the regions appetite for independence all seats are up for grabs after catalan separatist leaders were sacked by madrid also coming up no evidence of links to terror groups police say a driver intentionally crashed his car into. What is motive remains unclear. And the trial opens for the man charged with carrying out a bomb attack on the Football Team burst dortmunds bus investigators say it had nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with money. Im sorry so much gonna thank you for joining us voters in catalonia have been casting their ballots in a hotly contested election seen as a gauge of support for independence from spain turnout is reportedly high of polling stations and a vote that comes two months after the region declared independence. Following a referendum opposed by madrid spanish authorities responded to that with a crackdown arresting separatist leaders and calling todays snap election madrid hopes it will put an end to the political crisis
Investors await hichbt it hintsr hawkish play apple reportedly moving to buy cobalt directly from miners. And amazon gets healthy in a potential challenge to pharmacy retailers. They are launching their own line of overthecounter Health Products the dow and the s p ended a sixsecon si sixsession win streak on tuesday. This afternoon, the fed minute. Will be released these are the minutes from yellens last meeting. May be hard to know from the last minutes, they were before the selloff, before the spike in yields so you dont get a real assessment so also before the big spending plan, the 300 billion. But it is after the tax cut. The first time we see the minutes after the tax cut to see how they think that will ripple through the economy. Multiples pretty much peaked around the time of the passage of that bill yes around 18. Now 16. 8 right in the middle of a 16 to 18 range of whats normal were back into the debate of whether the Second Quarter will bring a tricky handoff Economic Indic
To resign. Welcome to the program, this is bloomberg daybreak europe. Lets check in on the Market Action overnight. The msci asiapacific is trading higher after we saw that strong session and United States. In the past two sessions, the biggest twoday increase in 18 months. 43 . S up 0. Japanese markets big weighted down being weighed down. Are also pointing down, so we need to be aware of that as we go through this mornings session. Morgan stanley joining Goldman Sachs and jpmorgan and advising the dip. He dip buy the has been a substantial move, and one of the things in the mix seems to be the Prime Minister in japan speaking in parliament, talking about how they have a blank slate in choosing the governor of the bank of japan. Reports suggested that governor kuroda would be tapped for another term. That could still happen, of course, but theyre talking about a blank slates of people to choose from. The3 is where we trade dollar against the brand rand. Zuma refuses to step aside, but
Brendan the Chinese Government seems to be in full panic trying to throw things at this to see what they can fix. Tom we mentioned barclays news. Jenkins is out at barclays. Here is vonnie quinn. Vonnie another round of Government Support measures the benchmark shanghai composite index is down more than 30 since june 12 through investors have suffered more than 3 trillion loss on paper. The Chinese Government has taken steps to prop up more cap stocks. At one point participants were locked out of 71 of the market. Foreign investors continue to sell holdings at a record pace. European leaders have given greece a new deadline. Expect a rescue plan by sunday or face being kicked out of the euro. The greek government is told to come up with new proposals. Angela merkel says she is not optimistic. This morning at the european parliament, the greek Prime Minister promised to deliver. Prime minister Singh Tsipras i am confident in the few days we are able to meet the obligations of the crucia