Headwinds for the consumer and continued layoffs and Economic Uncertainty and the lack of additional stimulus from congress so can this consumer remain resilient. Pete, throw anything at the consumer and it seems like he or she will continue to spend it does seem that way its amazing mel by the way, its good to see you. When you break it down its about a couple of Different Things and stimulus is out there and by the time they get into two or just after the elections i think well start toy so more stimulus if we dont see it sooner than that, that will help, but anybody thats got ecommerce exposure and they have it on the Positive Side like target, like walmart and home depot, lowes and so many others and they have the digital side and retail is doing very, very well. If they dont, then many of those are definitely struggling and i dont know how many of those will survive and you have to have the ecommerce arm if you want to compete in this environment. Curbside pickup doesnt cut it for
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Budget set to be outlined in parliament today. Tesla takes the trade war in its own hands. Suing the u. S. Government and Robert Lighthizer over the tariffs over imports from china. A warm welcome lets kick off the show with fresh numbers out of germany the Business Climate for the eve owe since september has come in a touch light. Current conditions 89. 2 for spent versus 89. 5. So just a touch light of expectations in terms of the expectations component, came in at 97. 7 versus forecast of 98. Slightly weaker but generally similar to what was expected the august numbers have also been revised we have the Expectations Index at 97. 2. These september figures and the forward looking part of this index has come in at 97. 7 for the month of september as business morale rises. This comes after data yesterday. The pmi flash for september showing that manufacturing in germany continuing to improve. Services contracted. Dropping below the 50 Mark Services trends in the economy we are going to
When it comes to coronavirus cases we here in the United States we are clearly in a league of our own. Take a look at this chart see that chart right there what it does is it compares the caseload thats the red line in the United States to the blue line in europe and i want to show you a couple of things theres the peak for europe you see that right there thats when they started to take some measures to try and create lockdowns for example ours came here in the United States just a little bit afterward whats fascinating is as their measures went down you can see that they pretty much broke the curve right they even the curve and it continues all the way to this day because theyre at 4000 a day in europe and its just now right here that theyre starting to finally make decisions to open things up again we here in the United States did things differently for example right there toward the end of april the beginning of may thats where texas and florida and acted their lock downs but both i
Times listen to this 5 times out of the last 9 days in fact its safe to say that when it comes to coronavirus cases we here in the United States we are clearly in a league of our own take a look at this chart see that chart right there what it does is it compares the caseload thats the red line in the United States to the blue line in europe and i want to show you a couple of things theres the peak for europe you see that right there thats when they started to take some measures to try and create lockdowns for example ours came here in the United States just a little bit after word whats fascinating is as theyre measures went down you can see that they pretty much broke the curve right they even the curve and it continues all the way to this day because theyre at 4000 a day in europe and its just now right here that theyre starting to finally make decisions to open things up again we here in the United States did things differently for example right. Theyre toward the end of april the