CIENA Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN ) is expected to report third quarter EPS of $0.29 on revenue of $600.81 million, compared to last year's EPS of $0.23 on revenue of $538.36 million. The situation in Ukraine looked to be brightening on Thursday as officials tried to determine the validity of a ceasefire agreement between Russian President Vladmir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Petro Poroshenko. The nation's central bankers maintained their two percent inflation goal and kept their economic assessment largely unchanged with the exception of a downgraded projection for housing.