Knife. Today marks exactly one year since a man raped and killed a 66yearold woman in dubuque. And at seven oclock tonight, family and friends will be gathering to remember the victim, nancy krapfl. Police say krapfl was out for a morning walk last september when Helmon Betwell beat her and raped her. He was 19 at the time. After his arrest, police say betwell told them he attacked the woman because had Nothing Better charges of first degree murder, first degree sexual abuse, and burglary. He and krapfl did not know each other. A judge ruled earlier this year that betwell is not mentally competent to stand trial right now. Hes still in Police Custody as he awaits a hearing on his mental state. We want to remind you that whenever you see news happening, we encourage you to call us on newsline nine. That number is 3193659999. Johnson county will soon go from one lane to none. Structural issues on the highway 965 bridge forced it down to a single lane. On tuesday, it will close completely
After investors weigh a slew of a lot ofeuropean banking stocks under pressure, 1. 8 lower. Australian Central Banks also cutting its benchmark Interest Rates to a record low lsd door opens for further easing unless the door opens for further easing. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news with mark barton. Mark chinese manufacturing flip today. Underscoring pockets of weakness in an economy. 49. 4 . Fell to Australias Central Bank cut its its market just rates to a record low. The unexpected move the aussie dollar weakens on the move. Its bad loan charges surging, profits fell from 7. 1 billion earlier. Badr bad loans loans. Net income fell to 707 million. That fell short of the 735 million frank. Chief executive told bloomberg uncertainty as well as Global Market volatility led to more pronounced risk aversion. We are seeing a very challenging environment. I think this cocktail of macro issues, geopolitical issues are coming on and we are going to see soon brexit. We are s
It seems the ecb is cornered because they have to remain credible. They have promised more. They can do three things to deliver. What will they do . Tom some early stage ands about what the ecb can do. Guests as youreat know, mind up. Lets get to the first world news. Reporter thank you. The European Central bank has a challenge today. It has to be shown he is ready to use stimulus. He has said it is too early to decide whether to expand. Meanwhile, the Economist Survey by bloomberg critics predicts the ecb will keep rates of the same. China says they will invest more than 9 billion in the First Nuclear power project in the u. K. Chinese Nuclear Company is designing a future u. K. Reactor. John boehner is being replaced by paul ryan. Rayan says he wants to hear from the two other groups by the end of the week. Hillary clinton will appear before the benghazi committee. This is regarding the attack in libya. Republicans suggested the s motivation is political. Last month, is the hardest
Manus you are welcome to countdown. Anna welcome to the program. Weve got to talk about what we have seen coming out of japan this morning. A real surprise. Let us show you what happened to the dollaryen as a result. Economistst of 42 expected any expansion of stiff a stimulus and none of them godicted that rates would negative. That underlines how surprising this was. The yen instantly weakened. General kuroda really kicking the yen back down. . Ill it last canmuch of an effect quantitative easing continue to happen on market psychology . A chart showing the diminishing effect of the general kuroda surprise. We will also hear from him in. Close davos. The equity side of the story is this. We dropped 1. 7 . Youre still looking at an overall loss for the month. Up 9 . Tate is rocking, securities and commodity futures are ramping higher as well. The bottom is the bank banks. 330 Companies Reported on the topics today. They are mixing their profitability targets. Commonwealth bank of aust
The jeep brand has its best month ever, with sales up 20 . And the threeday truce in gaza has all a part. Israel says hamas has ended the cease fire. Hamas has accused israel of the same thing. In the u. S. , more details on the market. Futures are lower after that big selloff yesterday. The july jobs report now is out at 8 30. For more on the markets, were joined by our stock editor, mike reagan, and peter. We have Team Coverage on this. Mike, lets start with you. People are saying we were worried about this correction and we got that yesterday. It was technically a correction of a 10 drop. Starting to look like we might be headed that way. Dont get all the people who were called for a correction. Jeffrey or doug ramsey. Theyre all longterm bullish on the market. They see a shallow correction somewhere, depending on where you ask, 510 . Theyre still bullish on the market longterm. Nobodys panicking . Panicking is a strong word. Yesterday was an ugly day. One of the things that happens