To the deflationary spiral however now because theres a strong trend of Wage Increases, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki says its over. Joining me now is seijiro takeshita, whos a professor at the university of shizuoka. Thank you for being with us today. Talk to us first of all, this is a pretty unique set of circumstances that japan has pretty unique set of circumstances thatjapan has been pretty unique set of circumstances that japan has been through for the past generation. It is todays Declaration Calls for celebration . Yes, i would think so. Concerning the fact that for two decades, we havent seen any wage rise. Where the only country to do that. There are a lot of recurring profits, bits nine redeeming to their employees. This is, in that sense, a remarkable change. In most of the estimates, there were around 4 , but now its been reported to be around 5. 2, exceeding expectations. fist been reported to be around 5. 2, exceeding expectations. Been reported to be around 5. 2, ex
The dow is the laggard. It is up 2. 75 . The treasury yields have been something of interest with the hotter than expected cpi and ppi numbers. Tenyear is 3. 4 . The twoyear is 4. 71 . Bitcoin is something we are watching closely. It is up 60 year to date. 67,872. It has been volatility. Did you have any corned beef . I did not. I had irish soda bread. Green beer . Nope. Did not have any. Green bagel . Nope. We wore green. Parades . I like it better during the week. I do, too. I think im more likely because the kids are in school and get more excited about it. We did set a leprechaun trap. If it would have been a tuesday . Yeah. Tuesday. Apple in talks with google to build and license the gemini a. I. Into the phone. They are in active negotiations to result in gemini powering features to be released by the iphone later this year. Apple has haeld discussions wit openai. We will let you know if we hear anything. The wall street journal is investigating if meta facilitated and profited f
Anticipating a reacceleration in inflation. Im just happy tightening is over. The economy is on a cooling path but it is a gradual path. This is bloomberg surveillance with jonathan ferro, lisa abramowicz, and annmarie hordern. Jonathan the most important hour of this morning begins right now. Good morning, good morning. Your equity market on the s p 500 positive one third of 1 . 30 minutes away from ppi, jobless claims, and retail sales. Lisa will it change anything . Ultimately i want to see if the market cares. How much people start to realize theres something greater under the hood then we are pricing in. Jonathan they can have a conversation about a Balance Sheet doing something about qt. The risk event for a lot of economists is whether those three cuts implied by the median dot drops down to two. Which would track the market in the direction the market did not want to go. Lisa and if jay powell does not sound as rosy about everything, it may be is concerned financial conditions
The iconic 123 year old American Steel company and said its vital that the company remain owned and operated in the states. This is a big deal and notjust politically. Nippon steel is set to pay 14. 9 billion to acquire the us giant. But politically, this is territory President Biden knows well. He has cast himself as a champion of the Working Class and called himself the most pro Union President in history. He made headlines for walking the picket line with striking Auto Union Workers last fall. Unionised steelworkers could lend the president support in his election bid. They form the largest industrial union. And for his part, donald trump pledged to block the deal if he takes the white house again. They agreed that Foreign Ownership would leave the us vulnerable when it comes to prioritising their own defence and infrastructure. Its bound to become a topic of conversation between key allies when japanese conversation between key allies whenjapanese Prime Minister when japanese Prime
What do we have to reassess. Jenny was talking about how she was wrong with respect to what the rate was and people are as reassessing what it means. Jonathan let us talk about what happened to the house. The tiktok built breezes through the house and then senators line up to say slow down and we take our time in the senate. This could drag on and on. It can. And you look at the hawks like Lindsey Graham, he was on fox and said it was a good question about how he was gonna vote and he said eileen yes that his concern and he is coming in line where the former president is and that is potentially why he feels that way he is concerned if tiktok is not there where did those individuals go and it is the facebook player, the potential google, x, twitter. And the bottom line is and i am astonished to see yesterday the bipartisan support for passing but also the nos. Marjorie Taylor Greene lighting up with alexandria ocasiocortez, it is not every day. Lisa im curious about this push because of