This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

Simon Constable, writing for the Wall Street Journal and other distinguished publications, is in the story town of Albion, the south of France, enjoying, of course, paradise.

However, he will attend to us the moving prices and expectations after the American election,

with a Trump administration number two due in 74 days in Washington.

Simon, a very good day to you.

We begin with the climate, of course, should anybody entertain a sudden transportation to the south of France to get out of the way of the news cycle, which is now relentless.

South of France weather today.

I report southern New England will be 70 degrees and partly cloudy with sunshine

shining through a beautiful golden fall. How is it with you? It's absolutely lovely, especially for

this time of year. If it was this temperature, which is 68, which will be the high for the day,

if it continues like that for a few more

days, which I think it will, then I'll be very happy, given that we are well into November at

the moment. It's not raining. It's not terrible weather. It will go down in a few days, though,

to quite chilly, and I'll be going out to get some wood logs

for the fire so we can get toasty at night.

We move from the climate, it is paradise, to commodity prices.

The Trump administration, in 74 days, mentions the price of oil because they're going to drill

baby drill, the unleashing of our

liquefied natural gas, which will no longer be banned for export, and other changes to the

energy picture, that is a vital factor for Europe in the third year of war. What do you see in

Brent Crude? Brent Crude is down a little bit, a little more than half a percent since last,

sorry, since yesterday. And that is partly because of the dollar's value increasing.

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