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