And facebook, and china h and a on a looming cash crunch. The level of debt in china. Yvonne some breaking news right now, south korea inflation in january looking soft, we see a 1 year on year estimate monthtomonth numbers edging lower at 4 10 of 1 , it seems the inflation looking to be getting more soft. Inething we do get to see the Fourth Quarter because we start to see the base effect starting to unwind and the stock currency weakness it is certainly playing into that inflation picture and it is essentially confirms the analysis that that be ok should bok. On hold in the meantime, inflation here looks like it may be picking up pace. That that statement mentioned Economic Growth and Economic Conditions might mean further gradual rate increases and too many that meant Interest Rate hikes coming faster than expected. I want to pull up one of our favorite charts it is wirp, and it shows Interest Rate hikes near almost 100 . Rate hike iner march, and certainly there is a sense where we
They are small potatoes. Kathleen i had an interesting conversation with bill dudley and i am putting that comment of small potatoes from bill dudley seenrspective we have much worse, however, he is convinced as well that, rate hikes will continue and is interesting to me that it isnt just u. S. Fed officials but other central bankers downplay the stock market volatility. We heard it from greg spencer yesterday, and we heard it from ecb officials yesterday, saying it will not affect the policy path. Unless it gets worse and last longer. Yvonne we heard the boe chiming in and it is fueled by the selloff that we saw overnight. Interesting contest of last week, or earlier this week that the worst may be and this is a technical shakeup given the fact that most of this market with short volatility, but now that trade is that, perhaps the dust settles, we should be ok. But today was an indication that we could see more to go. Kathleen may more dust coming, we shall see. The s p dropped takes
Since september. Bigdr pepper is todays winner surging on the news of a 18 billion approach from coffee keurig. Yo betty that is a lot of caffeine to start your morning with. We saw ageold in the treasury market. They, it was really about bond market, and that is spooking investors. I want to pull up this chart. The yieldlking about curve flattening, there was a miss read of that, and we know primarily a big reason for that is the shorter end of the yield curve was rising faster than the long curve. Now it seems the 10 and the 30, which were lacquered, is finally playing catchup. Given the movement we saw today, that catch up might move up pretty quickly. We talked about what a wild week it was for traders. Announcing how much issuance theyre going to be having for this year, and also the report is a recipe for higher yields, and also the dollar catching up with this rising yield. You heard analysts with reports saying it is not going to last they arebecause saying, you cant exactly re
The labor market remains strong. Teen the debt came can still getting kicked down the road and continues. Haidi toshiba agrees to sell its units to the bank consortium. A little while ago, we had an absolute welter of japanese data. It was good in parts. One of the ones that was anodyne with Household Spending. Went it is really showing is how japans households, perhaps the increase in august, 6 10 of 1 was pretty much expected reversing a slight decline in july. Positive signals. Auto sales rebounding. We have risk ahead. A slight pickup in inflation and against the backdrop of a central bank that would mark progress on reflation. Low unemployment. Key. S the wages are still growing, but spending is only just starting to get hired. That is something shinzo abe before an increase in the consumption tax and a couple of years. Haidi thats right. We are wondering, we saw the setback that resulted from the last tax hike. We have been bracing ourselves situation when fiscal malice policy wo
British industry, saying he is not an enemy of free markets. Have a look at that manifesto. Have a look at the principal and the arrive at, investments in the future. Look at our plans and education. And if you wish, come and talk to us. Anna a very welcome welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe, our flagship morning show here in london. Manus breaking news coming through, but first, the red headline. Nikkei closes at the highest level since 1992, and with that anna japanese corporates reporting toyota will buy back 1. 5 of its shares for ¥260 billion. Also giving of guidance for the full gear, lifting operating profit outlook. That guidance moving in the right direction. A decent year in the United States, their biggest market, helped by good sales of the u. S. , by the weakness in the yen. That has been playing out across the industry. But they had to pay for it a little bit in the u. S. With higher incentive, which is why they were questioned about whether it would be upgraded guidan