Hello everyone and welcome to this June 29th edition of the Real Vision Daily Briefing.

For Real Vision, I'm Max Wheatey sitting in today for Ash Bennington, who's busy over at our first ever virtual event, the crypto gathering.

I'm joined today by Ed Harrison and we don't have an intro today, so I'm just going to pass the ball

off to you, Ed.

What is it that you are looking at on June 29th?

Yeah, what I'm looking at is a continued volatility in markets sort of directionless in terms of,

you know, whether it's up or down. We saw down on Friday, up today day and what's causing that. You know we had the

reopening rally and that reopening rally seems to have stalled a bit now and

there's a lot of debate about you know where things are headed and I think a lot of that

has to do with the increase in coronavirus cases that we have. I had two charts in particular that I saw today

that I thought were pretty interesting on that count.

The one was comparing the United States

to various other countries.

It showed, you know know if you looked at infection

rates per million what the United States looked like, what Europe looked like,

what Japan looked like, what Canada looked like, and the US looked worse than the other countries.

It looked actually all three countries from the West looked relatively poor in the first

wave but as the first wave progressed Canada and Europe their

counts went down whereas the United States stayed high and then recently have

gone up. Then the other thing that I thought was very

interesting was a chart for the United States which compared various states. You

saw New York and the way that it went up very high early on and then came

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