scarlet: thank you so much, bloomberg editor david kirkpatrick.ark: still ahead on the "bloomberg market day," how pimco dealt with the departure of bill gross. that is coming up, when we return. ♪ mark: welcome back to "bloomberg market day," i am mark crumpton here with scarlet fu. scarlet: let's go straight to julie hyman with economic data giving us a bit of a lift. yes indeed, retail sales are ahead of estimates if you back out of auto sales. ado want to look at the dated chart of the s&p 500 and look at the trajectory we have been on. remember we got those headlines out that the imf said it was not making progress with those talks with greece and that it was leaving brussels without continuing those talks. withe have a reaction those stocks but not nearly a reaction to the stocks that we have seen in europe. the s&p is now up at third of 1% . some of the movers helping contribute to the games today oil company, the the most active oil driller in the balkans. it agreed to silly 50% stake of its pipeline unit in that region to global infrastru