U.S. markets are mixed on the day, after opening higher on the Greek agreement. Cisco shares lower, but up nearly 50 percent since last August. And Pepsico is down nearly 4 percent after it refers to 2012 as a "transition year." And Diamond Foods takes a major hit after announcing it's getting rid of two top executives over improper accounting.

Dr. Jörg Krämer, chief economist at Commerzbank, told CNBC, "the negotiations with private sector investors are still not concluded and so it would be stupid for Draghi to say anything. In the end I would expect the ECB to take a haircut..."

Tom Albanese, CEO of Rio Tinto, told CNBC, "we see the mining sector very strong long-term prospects and certainly that was evident by our underlying performance, record underlying earnings: 15.5 billion, record cash flows: 27 billion, these are strong numbers."

Henrik Ramlau-Hanse, CFO of Dankse Bank, told CNBC, "we continue here from Danske Bank to see a difficult environment for 2012, we came out of 2011 with earnings of 1.7 billion Danish kroner and we also expect for 2012 that our earnings will remain low, so we still expect a difficult macro economic climate."

Stock index futures pointed to a flat open for Wall Street today as investors looked ahead to talks to secure a new bailout for Greece as well as a policy decision by the European Central Bank. In Europe, shares were higher in morning trade on hopes that a second bailout deal for Greece was in the making, with the country's finance minister on his way to Brussels for a meeting with other euro zone finance ministers.