to go above 30,000. japan has just released growth figures. asia s second biggest economy grew 1.6% on annualised rate, much better than what had been predicted. i spoke to neil newman from macquarie capital. we have been closely watching wage growth, the wage number, which hasn t really filtered through into anything visible as yet. the gdp number certainly does indicate there is a large amount of the domestic economy now contributing to this. as you mentioned cap ex, business spending was up 0.9 on the annual basis, way ahead of expectations. but even private consumption was also up, 0.6% against the market consensus of 0.4. even though it appears the wage number we have been looking at, the last numbers were in march, they were not that impressive, in fact they were quite depressing. the next key one will be injune, april s numbers, and that s when we will start to see the increase in overall wages. of course it s notjust the wage number that contributes to all of this, it
second biggest economy grew 1.6% on annualised rate, much better than what had been predicting, thanks to private consumption and an unexpected rise in capital expenditure. let s bring in neil newman from the quarry capital who joins us live from tokyo. thank you for joining us. the data has come out a lot stronger than expected, talk us through what s been doing quite well. this is a very big and positive surprise. we have been closely watching wage growth, the wage number, which hasn t really filtered through into anything visible as yet. the gdp numbers certainly does indicate there is a large amount of the domestic economy contributing to this. as you mentioned cap ex, business spending was up on the annual basis, way ahead of expectations. but even consumption was also up, 0.6% against the market consensus of 0.4. even though it appears the wage number we have been looking at, the last numbers in march, they were not that impressive, in fact they were quite depressing. t
trolls, republicans need to stop being so of noxious. and you write about the reasons republicans fared so poorly in the 2022 midterms be on the economy. abortion in the attacks on democracy. could there be more? all of these factors clearly played a role, but don t underweight the impact of formative obnoxious in this that now pervades republican messaging. conservatives have built career paths for young people that start on extremist message boards and lead to jobs and republican campaigns, and then jobs with state and federal offices, then jobs in the conservative media. this pattern of behavior bids fair to repeat itself in 2024. as i write these words, at the beginning of 2023, the conservative world s most excited not by the prospect of big, legislative action from a republican house majority, and not by trump s declared candidacy for president in 2024, or by desantis is yet under crowd won, but by the chance to repeat is 2020 attacks on the personal misconduct of presi
humanitarian ceasefire in gaza. every other member of the council backed the resolution, apart from the uk, which abstained. palestine condemned the result as a terrible day for the council, but israel thanked the us, saying a ceasefire would give hamas - which is classed as a terror group by many western governments, including the uk a chance to regroup. our correspondent hugo bachega reports. in gaza, there is no safe place, says the un secretary general. the healthcare says the un secretary general. the healthca re system says the un secretary general. the healthcare system is collapsing, hospitals have come battlegrounds, and palestinians have no shelter or anything else needed to survive, he says. this was the scene in khan younis in the south yesterday, in the aftermath of an israeli abstract, as the military pushes ahead with its against hamas. hours later, the un in new york, the secretary general called for a ceasefire and how did this warning. there is a high risk
individual neutral athletes, no flags, no anthems to connect them to those countries of the olympics. they have the support of the sports federations and the athletes but this would be a huge controversial decision in ukraine has been adamant that no russian or belarusian to compete in along with those countries that support ukraine against russian and belarusian participants in the olympics and includes the usa and great britain. they re very unhappy with the conditions with which left to compete and they said the restrictions were humiliating and as for those sports, some who have not supported the ioc, the biggest sport in the athletics has been absolutely firm that they will not move or allow any russians belarusians to compete while the war in ukraine continues. the women s super league returns to england this weekend after the international break and ahead of their match against arsenal on sunday, the chelsea manager, emma hayes, has said women in football are routine