Diesel car had its day . Latest figures show we are turning away from them. Alastair cook resigned as england captain after a record 59 matches in charge. In the sport on bbc news. Director of cricket, andrew strauss, says Alastair Cook has stepped down as england captain because they lacked the energy and drive to continue. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Tonight we bring you a Special Report that highlights the unprecedented pressures facing nurses and doctors in the nhs. Over the past week bbc news has been given exclusive access to the Royal Blackburn Hospital which was once in special measures but is now rated good. Its A E Department receives more ambulances than any other in the north west of england. In the first of two reports, our special correspondent ed thomas has been speaking to staff and the patients they treat. There are distressing images in what comes next. Inside the Royal Blackburn Hospital. The bbc was given unrestricted access to witness the press
London. Im francine lacqua. Lets quickly check on the markets. We decided to plug pound before anything else. If you were to choose one story you wanted to date deeper into, it would be bank of england and repercussions of a brexit on whether they will do qe and what an Interest Rate cut means for the economy. For europeanicture stocks overall, gaining a touch. We had earnings news here in there. Crude oil at 43. Lets get the bloomberg first word news with nejra cehic. Nejra siemens has raised its earnings outlook for the year after higherthanexpected thirdquarter profit. Europes biggest Engineering Company said profit from socalled industrial operations rose 20 in the three months through june. Chicago fed president Charles Evans says one rate hike could be warranted this year. He expects growth to increase in the second half of 2016 following disappointing gdp readings in the first two quarters. Investors are awaiting fridays jobs data for july. A woman has been killed and five other
Time. Full steam ahead. Zima ats estimates for clarity following the brexit vote. Caroline super thursday is upon us and it looks as if there is a Risk Appetite and we are following you is higher, you asia higher. We got futures signaling. 5 uptick on the open. 5 . Ee we are up the dax looks like we could surge. 6 . Money moving into equities. Money moving into equities in japan as well. The nikkei 225 has been surging more than a percentage point. Finally a turnaround in the risk aversion and money moving into asia and out of the yen. Money moving out of the haven that is gold. We get we get a bit of a steadying in the oil market. We see supplies come down slightly in the United States. Lets get to Bloomberg Business flash with juliette saly. Juliette caroline, thank you. A woman has been killed and five others injured in a knife attack in central london. Police were called to russell square. A 19yearold man was arrested a few minutes later after being tasered. Mental health was a sig
Estimates. The biggest thing on the economic front, the bank of england coming out with its Interest Rate cut as well as increased stimulus here. Factory orders, durable goods orders coming out a little better than had been estimated but it does not seem to be changing the direction of stocks to any significant degree at the moment. Still seeing very little change as investors weigh what the bv has done with the bank of japan and try to extrapolate what the fed in the u. S. Will do. Playing into what we are seeing today asked stocks fluctuate above and below the zero line i half hour after the beginning of trading. I what to look at what is going on in the bond market following the bank of england action and following the Economic Data. As we saw in the u. K. We see yields moving lower. 1. 49 in the United States and taking a leg of further down after we got this Economic Data although it does appear to be better. In terms of individual stocks that we are watching this morning, weve go
Basis points reduction and that has perhaps helped. Certainly in the uk itself as you see the ftse 100 up 1. 3 . Our 10year note yield hovering lets call it around the 1. 5 level and crude, which has been an important story in the movement of our broader markets during the course of this week, look the that, flat, 40. 83 after dropping below 40 this week. Lets get to our road map and it does start with the bank of england rate cut as it ripples across the globe. Markets we will get mark carneys take. Major media earnings, fox and viacom shares both moving this morning in different directions. Whats behind the quarters at fox and viacom, what about the turmoil. Frankly at both companies. Tesla misses estimates, but that didnt stifel, what is this all in the family, stifel elon musks optimism. We hear his outlook for the companys future. Futures on the rise a bit this day after the dow broke that sevenday losing streak. The bank of england cutting its benchmark Interest Rate for the Firs