withn start this program torsten slok, chief economist over it deutsche bank. we've just had a tough weekend in the united states. many pictures of many states getting back to normal quite quickly. does the fate of the global economy still depend on getting a vaccine? torsten: absolutely. if we do get a vaccine, it would change everything. it would change the health outlook, the outlook for markets, the outlook for the global economy. unfortunately, it still looks like that is not the case, so for now, we are back to watching the reopening, watching the fundamentals. it is definitely getting better, a slow crawl out. we are at the bottom of the canyon, looking up, but it looks quickly like the news of dataning and the economic getting better is something the market should be paying attention to. jonathan: many countries already have gone through the reopening experience, several weeks or several months ahead of what we are seeing in the united states. what have you learned so far about that experience? countries number of in europe have already reopened. we had