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
Jonathan ferro, Lisa Abramowicz, and tom keene. We welcome all of you to our simulcast on television and radio worldwide. Thrilled you are with us today. Coming up, a really important conversation on the global markets. The new slow today absolutely asked ordinary. We have been absolutely extraordinary. We have really been focused on hong kong, but right now weve got to turn to the american claims, which is surveyed again to be over 2 million. Near 40 a lot of pain, million over the last two months or so, so clearly the labor market is in an absolute mess. It is really painful. I think it would be a mistake to think the policy effort was done. It is not. There is certainly debate in washington on what to do next on the fiscal side. Lets not forget the monetary side either. The ecb has been flirting with doing more. Think we have to move to Forward Guidance. What does future policy look like . That is where the effort transitions in the next several weeks. Tom i agree on the idea that w
To push australia past 250. His third tonne of the season. Only don bradman has more. And we are all thrilled and we are all thrilled and nick miller has the weather. We have rain and High Pressure building infor we have rain and High Pressure building in for the weekend, to settle things down. Briefly. I have your full forecast coming up. See your full forecast coming up. See you in half an hour. See you in half an hour. Thanks nick, also coming up on afternoon live. Away from the drama of westminster, well be finding out what young people make of it all. Hello everyone this is afternoon live, im simon mccoy. Good afternoon, youre watching afternoon live from westminster. The tensions at the heart of government have been laid bare after borisjohnsons brother, jo, quit the government and announced hes stepping down as a conservative mp. He says hes been torn between family loyalty and the National Interest. He spoke to the bbc, just a few moments ago, outside his london home. I havent
Obviously never had that motivation before. Theres a new way to keep your number when you switch mobile phone provider. From today all it takes is a text. Ill be looking at what the change means for you. Better the devil you know. A triumphant kylie steals the show at glastonbury 14 years after her cancer diagnosis prevented herfrom performing. Well bring you that and the rest of the highlights from the weekend. Dry all week for wimbledon. Weather forecast, showery, rain and windy forecast, showery, rain and windy for scotland and Northern Ireland but improving through the day. For england and wales, some sunny spells. I will have more in 15 minutes. Its monday istjuly. Our top story riot police have used pepper spray and batons during clashes with protesters in hong kong overnight, on the 22nd anniversary of its shift from british to chinese rule. The protests are the latest against a proposed law that would allow suspected criminals to be sent to Mainland China to face justice. The H
Against the Islamic State group has been killed in northern syria. Also in the next hour. More than two hours are wasted per day in nhs operating theatres, because of inefficiencies. A new study finds hundred of thousands more non Emergency Operations could be carried out every year in england, if operating schedules were better organised. Xijinping consolidates his control of china as the communist party enshrines his name and ideology into its constitution. And a collection of portraits by the french master paul cezanne go on display this week in london. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The European Council president donald tusk has urged members of the European Parliament to stick together, or, as he put it, face defeat. Brexit, he said is the eus toughest stress test, and the eu must not be divided at any cost. Mr tusk also said the outcome of the brexit talks is up to london, and that abandoning the decision to leave the eu is still an option for the uk. Our europe correspond