1. A gauge of U.S. business investment plans posted its largest increase in just over a year in July, underscoring the durability of the economic recovery despite a slowing global economy.
2. U.S. stocks opened sharply higher on Wednesday, with all three major indexes up about 2 percent, after data showed durable goods orders rose more than expected in July.
Analysts had expected a fall of 4 percent. Orders for core capital goods, a proxy for business investment, rose 2.2 percent - the biggest gain in 13 months.
3. An influential Federal Reserve official did not comment on monetary policy or the U.S. economy, according to text of a speech on Wednesday that addressed the economic recovery in his region of the country.
4. Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos is expected on Friday to call a snap election for next month, an official at the presidency told Reuters, ending fruitless coalition efforts among parties deeply divided over the country's new bailout.
5. The euro was down more than 1% against the dollar on Wednesday after a senior European Central Bank policymaker warned that the risks to its short-term inflation target have increased and hinted at fresh easing to combat deflation.
EUR/USD was down 1.16% to 1.1386, extending its pullback from the eight-month highs of 1.1713 hit on Monday.
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