And we start in europe after 8 years at the helm of the e. C. B. Mario druggy is final policy meeting is famous 2012 statement whatever it takes to preserve the euro at the height of the financial crisis will go down in history successes leaves behind a divided governing council last month a 3rd of its members oppose his move to restart quantity of easy printing money to buy bonds from governments and companies as a way of stabilizing the euro zone. His final press conference that ended just minutes ago he was asked by a reporter what kind of advice he has for his successor Christine Lagarde heres what he had to say. This is the she knows perfectly well what would she has to do and by the way she has a long period of time ahead you know we should have to floor him her own view too good that we can go in council about what to do but the stop here really. So that britain sells it doing a financial correspondent in the front 1st who is listening to this full statement he leaves an empty a
We will hear from Lloyd Blankfein and others, coming up on the european close. Have a look at where european equities are trading today. This is the chart we want, global macro movers. Equities, currencies, bonds, commodities, mix today, as you can see. Technology stocks sunk yesterday down for down from 2. 8 , mirroring what happened in the u. S. Not falling as much today. I slant is lower, luxembourg and denmark are higher. Lower,andi is luxembourg and denmark are higher. Sovereign bond yields are declining today. Commodities. That is the situation on the gmm function. Credit suisse is in the news today. It is planning to return half of its net income to shareholders through buybacks and special dividends and wants to reward shareholders to bolster the banks finances, after capping shareholders for more than 10 billion swiss francs in recent years. The best been selling risky assets and entering the final year of restructuring. Shareholders have stayed with the bank. Aviva in the new
Us. He thinks oil has also bombed. This year hell lay out his case coming up. Also apple giving a nice boost to the dow today. In fact, its the best performer. Its up more than 4 right now after word gout out that Warren Buffetts company. Also Julia Robertson has reduced his stake. Lets start with oil prices rising. Goldman turning bullish. Previously one of the most bearish forecasts over the past year, now saying prices could go to 50 in the next half of the year because of an oil deficit interestingly enough. And the oil market has gone from interior soaring saturation to being so much earlier than expected. With us now is anthony row sanity. Its the highest since november, right, so clearly the market is moving in a more positive direction here but how stable is it . You know, thats the big question, kelly. How sustainable is it. Its up 700,000 barrel as day. The weak dollar are driving this higher. After the summer it remains to be seen. How did we go from such a huge surplus to a
Looking out there. It is looking nice, feeling nice, humidity on the low side, jim, all right. So were good. Yesterday was a Beautiful Day, we had all that sunshine, felt comfortable, warm temperatures, getting off to a great start in philadelphia getting a live look at center city not a cloud in the sky, sunnies up clear sky conditions and temperatures feeling cool 67 degrees right now is your current. That feels nice and refreshing after 16 days spent in the 90s last month and temperatures cool all across the region. Right now 53 degrees in mount pocono. Might even need long sleeves this morning. 61 degrees in the Lehigh Valley and waking up to 61 in millville and were in the 50s in doylestown and 57 degrees this morning in quakertown certainly cool start for an august morning and for today another Beautiful Day in store mostly sunny and comfortable. We will see increasing humidity in the second half of the day tomorrow and i think by tomorrow evening you will feel that sticky factor
Wilmington about 6 50. Dover about 8 00 tonight. And the futurecast does show that line Holding Together as it moves into the area. More coming up later. Glenn, thank you. Lets go to lester holt for a special report on the attack in turkey. Were back with an update in the terror attack at the International Airport in istanbul, turkey, tonight. The death toll right now is ten. Injuries, at least 60 people injured in what appear to be multiple suicide bombings, late evening there, at this Major International air hub, when the attacks took place. We have seen pictures of bloodied and stunned survivors. We have seen people scurrying, and then this video purported to be of the explosion itself. We can tell you the signage appears to be consistent with the lower level of the istanbul airport. We have not independently confirmed this video. But again, it purports to show one of the explosions on the lower level outside the lower level of the airport. Heres some of the injured being taken away