with our rulses to suspend trading because we wanted to make sure that nyse stocks wouldn t be negatively impacted. trading on platforms other than the floor was uneffected and despite the halt nyse consolidated volume which captures trading across all platforms was heavier than normal due to the global market sell off. speaking of stocks let s check on how today s session is shaping up. u.s. equity futures looking for a bounce back after the big sell off yesterday. dow futures implied with an open plus 150 points. here s big stories we re watching today at this hour. we ll start with china. beijing taking drastic steps to prop up it s market there. along today s move banning shareholders with large stakes in listed firms from selling. it closed up nearly 6%. elsewhere, south korea rates overnight but did have the country s economic growth forecast. and then of course have to keep updating you on the situation in greece. meantime germany s central bank warns that greek so
i love that question. if they get a be key getting into friday. ofathan: for me, the bank england leaves forecasts unchanged. the overwhelming majority expecting rate cuts this thursday. that s going to be fascinating. alix: fascinating communications coming out of the boe. that trickle down into european stocks. rally into the recent coming off the biggest monthly gains this october. the hsbc global equity strategist ben laidler. lots of red on monday. thethan: lots of green in last five months. the s&p 500 has been win, win, win. to kick off this monday s trading is softer in europe, the ftse down about .1%. the dax marginally in negative territory. alrightx market, it s on this one throughout the week. the cable rate with a weaker pound off the back of some pretty weak manufacturing data coming out of the united kingdom ahead of that bank of england rates decision. is coming thursday. the commodity market is just wow, wow, wow. the biggest monthly drawing some down as weit
yellen s comments. check out the futures this morning. 227 points for the dow. now down by about 25 points for the dow futures but up 5 points for the nasdaq and down by .57. the big story is the dollar. the dollar got slammed on this news but the euro surging past 110 at one point. it was the currency s biggest move since march of 2009. of course you have to keep this all in mind looking at the dollar verses the euro in recent months. the euro is back at 10898. michelle will be joining us with more on what happened in just a moment. in the meantime let s get you caught up on the other big stories we re watching this morning. target agreeing to pay $10 million to settle a class action lawsuit related to the massive 2013 data breach. individual victims may receive up to $10,000 in damages as part of the deal. a hearing on the settlements is set for today in minnesota. apple officially a member of the dow this morning. this is the first day of its membership. the company rank
Schroders group chief executive Peter Harrison will retire next year, but he ll continue to serve as a director while the firm searches for his successor.