second-largest provider for $37 billion. welcome to the pulse live from london. manus: let s give you some of the breaking eurozone data. francine: it is pretty much as expected. june services pmi data rising. it is exactly what we were expecting. the focus now on greece. with just two days to go until a referendum on european bailout proposals, a bloomberg poll shows that the country is decided divided right down the middle. manus: it shows 43% are set to follow prime minister alexis tsipras and vote no. 42.5% will vote yes. this comes as the imf says the crisis-ridden country needs 60 billion euros of extra funds over the next three years to stabilize the economy. we are joined by erik schatzker in athens and hans in berlin. this poll shows it is too close to call. obviously it also shows that the majority, four out of five, want to keep the euro, but do they understand that is not necessarily what they are voting for on sunday? erik: nothing is clear, manus, but the sk
european equities are trading 30 minutes into the session. stocks are falling in europe, the biggest three-day drop since november 4. donald trump s firing of the acting attorney general adding about uncertainty decisions in the new administration. that s the biggest drop since november 2. and currencies are rising against the dollar. look at the greek 10 year yield still no agreement between the latest bailout review itseen greece and creditors. lots of corporate news to tell you about shell accelerating its drive to shed assets, agreeing to sell its fields in the north sea and thailand. the disposals include the sale of half the companies north sea assets for about 3.8 ilion dollars. $3.8 billion. bgt s filing up after the $54 billion takeover. a swedish fashion retailer, h&m, providing relief for the european clothing industry, reporting profits that topped estimates and setting a new annual growth target after missing estimates of five of the previous six quarters.
it is hard to get wrapped around the numbers but what is eresting to me is the is the market reaction of what mr. corona can do going forward. jon: then the yen is stronger. the bank of japan runs qe at a clip of around $18 billion every few months. that is how small pieces. it feels like a drop in the bucket. we are going to dig into these stories of the day. the details on this package entering a bear market with ebrahim rubari, ari ebrahim rahbari. hong kong markets closed because of the storm. the real story was in japan and that was straight off the bat. 1.4%.ope, the dax down are the leading losers on the stocks in europe. we will debate that throughout the program. a 101 handle on the japanese yen, dollar yen trading at 77, the stronger yen session in the fx market capturing that risk for a moment. the commodity market is fascinating. we moved to $40 a barrel yesterday. back, one full percentage point to $40.61. a big shift in the bond market today. core gover