Gloom. Yes. You can understand why futures are slightly flat to down this morning. What else . All right, Economic Data here in the u. S. , we got the initial jobless claims, import prices. Those beat come out at 8 30. And then the bloomberg theres a g in that, right . Yes, very good, bloomberg. Bloomberg index comes out at 9 45. Earnings before the bell, walmart and kohls, youre going to break those. A lot of earnings from retailers today. Walmart and kohls before the bell. After the bell, jc pen sandee nordstrom. Yesterday we learned from macys that theyre not selling as much stuff as they thought, and thats because of all the promotions. Anyway, there you have the morning brief. Very good. We look at occurrence success, commodities, futures flat. 10year yield is nothing. The first screen is boring. On to the next screen. Courtney, the v. I. X. , thats stunning, 12. 90. You talk about resiliency and quiet across u. S. Equities, there it is. Well get to the german twoyear in a minute.