Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazon and walmart have taken so much share in this country,
Is now red only the parts of Northern Europe and at least still with low infection rates so the coroner pandemic has europe in the its grip and we have now 10000000 cases in europe alone according to the World Health Organization all right so part of it as you reference to is to do with people becoming more complacent now as xander was reporting germany has accepted patients from belgium because it still has capacity its i. C. U. Capacity is still good how are you members in general working together and is there an in you wide approach to this pandemic. Admitting peasant patients in other hospitals across borders this is a regional approach the e. U. As such has no central register for intensive care units as ministers are trying to set up such a thing but the cooperation on the you level is fairly low just a simple example there is no common passenger locator form as of now 8 months after the makers started and so the Health Ministers are not concentrating on the future and the future
Melissa chan welcome to d. W. New asia thank you for joining us thailand is facing another weekend of antigovernment protests and demonstrators have been Holding Daily rallies to with tens of thousands of people turning out the activists have 3 demands theyre calling for the Prime Minister to step down for a reform of the constitution and a reform of the monarchy theyve been keeping momentum up with some inventive events such as this a terrible fashion show held earlier in the week meant as a criticism of the elites and is specially of the royal familys tast well. Joining us now to what kind of fellow who has been out on the streets over the past few months and a critic of the government since his University Days you know what i remember the protests earlier this summer and then to see people still out now why do you think this movement has gained momentum i think that. You would not have been given moment because of the fairly Economic Situation is thailand the government condon manag
Melissa chan welcome to asia thank you for joining us thailand is facing another weekend of antigovernment protests and demonstrators have been Holding Daily rallies to with tens of thousands of people turning out the activists have 3 demands theyre calling for the Prime Minister to step down for a reform of the constitution and a reform of the monarchy theyve been keeping momentum up with some inventive events such as this a terrible fashion show held earlier in the week meant as a criticism of the elites and especially of the royal familys fast well. Joining us now to what kind of fellow who has been out on the streets over the past few months and a critic of the government since his University Days you know what i remember the protests earlier this summer and then to see people still out now why do you think this movement has gained momentum i think that. You would not have been given moment because of their fellow Economic Situation is thailand to column and kind in manage the econ