But the breakdown of oil today on Global Demand is really significant. Under 40, not only but well on to new lows right now, 39. 71 on world oil. It is much more about the pandemic than it is the epsilon off the american election. Jonathan a breakdown on the equity benchmark in frankfurt, germany, the dax suffering. What is new about today . The dollar bid through g10 against e. M. You mentioned the turkish lira this morning as well. The Dollar Strength returns with a bit of a vengeance this wednesday morning. Tom let me triangulate again here triangulate yen here, folks. You throw the dollar out and look at euroyen, and euroyen clearly indicates weak euro. Lisa teladoc a. M. , german chancellor ashtead 00 a. M. ,erman chancellor 10 00 a. M. German chancellor Angela Merkel discussing new restrictions to stave off the rapidly increasing number of cases of covid. Also at 10 00 a. M. , ceos of facebookalphabet, and are testifying to a Senate Committee on restrictions of political messages
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Return. Cellent huge samestore sales beat at home depot. Now walmart out with a digital 97 at theirup online stores. Granted, it is a different a different mix than home depot. A stunning statement from the traditional of england, where i believe one and in will be shown the door. Anna they are hoping to do this through voluntary redundancies and retirements and the like, but they got to get to that number. Food was a bright spot at marks spencers. Obviously, the online shift on all of these retailers has structurally been dealing with prepandemic comes with costs as well for retailers. They need to reposition their businesses for a new world. Tom it is a really complex tuesday here on our simulcast. We welcome all of you on Bloomberg Radio and Bloomberg Television. Futures up eight. The vix is a stunning 21. 22. Unimaginable weeks and months ago. Really noting dollar weakness at 92. Ith the dxy give us the themes that you see this morning. Get to the week as well. Weve got an fx voice
A beautiful new york today. Good morning in washington boston. Early good morning out in san francisco, to all of you across this nation on sirius xm. We also say good morning to anna edwards in london. Why are we doing this . It is august. Ferro is off. From whats is off abramowitz is off. I said, i want anna edwards, and here she is. I am going to go optimism here with bob doll any moment, with home depot and walmart and all that. Explain to our american audience the place of Marks Spencer in the United Kingdom psychology, and what it means that one in 10 bodies will be shown the door. This isnt necessarily a very optimistic way to start the hour, but Marks Spencer, a huge retailer that was on every high street in the u. K. It is going to be getting rid of one in 10 of its staff, mostly through retirements and the like, but it is not just about covid19. This is a secular trend that has been affecting the retailers. Not only do they have to deal with the fact that a lot of their custo