Bond purchases in Something Like 88 months. The ecb can buy up to 1 3 of the countrys debt. In the u. S. , still about 3000 on the s p. Yields being moved higher by yields in europe. Crude down 2. 6 . The renminbi is being whipsawed a little bit as well. We were down to 7. 05 and change a bit ago, and now back up to 7. 07. Ecb president mario draghi spoke after the rate and policy decision today. Here are some of his thoughts from the news conference. Mr. Draghi the risks surrounding the euro area Growth Outlook remain tilted to the downside. We still think the probability of recession for the euro area is small, but it has gone up in view of the weakening Economic Outlook and the continued prominence of downside risk. Governments with fiscal space should act in an effective and timely manner. We have a mandate. We pursue price stability, and we dont target exchange rates, period. Vonnie this was the big final one for mario draghi. He has another press conference in october, but this w
Quit. A industrial spoken of 30 points. Nasdaq up 11 points. Major indices look like this. The ft 100 up a fraction but the cac and dax and germany down a fraction. Asia overnight markets higher across the board. Nikkei average in japan as well as the hang seng in hong kong that two thirds of 1 . Kospi up one and two thirds of a percent. New details in a deadly Las Vegas Massacre. Mandalay bay Security Guard was shot six minutes before the gunman began his rampage. Have a new Development Changes the timeline for investigators and what that means now in the investigation. North korea threat on the rise. Secretary of defense jim mattis joined the u. S. Army to stand ready. The latest on the escalating tensions. Many in hollywood remained silent over Sexual Harassment allegations against harvey one team. One major name for the fashion world coming to his defense. By donna karan is speaking out on behalf of the embattled. Jemele hill and how it landed her in hot water. Jedis rejoice. Hes a
Of a new round of nafta talks. President trump has threatened to withdraw from the accord unless the u. S. Gets a better deal. House Speaker Paul Ryan is taking a handsoff approach in the escalating feud between President Trump and Tennessee Republican senator bob corker. Ryan was questioned today about the war of words between the two in recent days. Speaker ryan i think its just talk it out amongst yourselves. My advice is for these two gentlemen to sit down and talk through their issues. I think thats the best way to get things done. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. This is bloomberg. Im alisa parenti. Bloomberg technology is next. Cory im cory johnson, in for emily chang. This is bloomberg technology. More legal problems at uber, including a criminal to previouslyand undisclosed probes by the Justice Department. Plus, amazon and microsoft taking the lead. We will hear from top executives at each firm. Japanese
The women said they plan to attend the Union Meeting next wednesday at which they will try to get the members present to approve their candidacy. Devin fehely kpix 5. A judge says abbe area woman whose bay area woman whose adopted son killed a sheriff deputy can keep her home. She put up her home for her sons bail but he failed to show up in court on drug and weapons charges. And months later he got into a shootout that killed the deputy. The suspect later died of his wounds. Today the judge said the mother and attorney went to Great Lengths to help authorities track down her son and theres no evidence she had a role in his decision to skip bail. A group of men are filing a lawsuit against San Jose Police accusing the department of singling out gay men during sting operations. Len ramirez on white lake on why they claim cops cross the line. Reporter this has been a case that is ongoing in san jose for the last three years. The federal lawsuit is now including accusing the san jose pd o
Tonight, Hillary Clinton officially accepts her partys nomination, and just minutes from now, were going to speak with one of wall streets biggest backers of the clinton campai campaign, mark lazri. Thats katy perry doing a sound check. Shes wearing a black baseball cap that says hrc for Hillary Rodham clinton. Im assuming you can hear her roar. Right now, in fact. Welcome to the busiest earnings day of the quarter. The dow is down, but apple continuing its solid run. Your big dow laggard right now happens to be boeing, down about 2 . Lets get downtown, and our own bob pisani with a scorecard on earnings season as we officially reach the halfway mark. Bob, how are we doing . The numbers are slowly improving, but still negative. Lets look at the Second Quarter scorecard. The s p 500 as a whole, these are Companies Reporting as well as companies that havent yet reported, what we call the blended earnings rate, down 2. 8 . Thats not good. Its still negative, but its better than it was a f