Consumer sales in japan showing slight improvement. Shinzo abe considering postponing the sales tax rise. 0 growth, this is a beat. This is a beat when you are flat numbers on month. Ago, we saw an optimistic message on abenomics. G7, he was grim when it came to the Global Economy, and these retail sales not looking good. We are still in negative territory for on year figures. Flat, month figures economist expecting a 6 10 of 1 drop. Now slightly back on the downside. More evidence about possibly another stimulus, a postponement in the sales tax hike. Haidi is that the only option remaining . Whats going to happen . More people joining in this conversation, and aide saying japan needs to hold off to sustain its recovery. We have no other options, he said. This is after we heard that warning coming out of the Prime Minister. This is signaling that he is going to be possibly pose putting this tax hike. I hate decline in revenue that would threaten the goal of abenomics. Since then, we ha