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the normal meetings, or they? are they? anna: the meetings in vienna are getting a good deal of profile. vienna is going to be the place to be. a lot still on the radar. we have opec tomorrow, the ecb, and the jobs report on friday. tom: now we have photos from japan. i believe video from japan as the prime minister, this is a retract, folks, he will a national sales tax. much of this was foreshadowed when he was with the president and leaders in g7 and hiroshima where he made very clear he was playing to a domestic audience. some of this today is the delay of a national sales tax and really a quite a blood abrupt blow to the fiscal side. to the bloomberg first word news. vonnie: in japan, prime minister shinzo avenue a is delaying prime minister shinzo abe is delaying the increase in sales tax until 2019. it would make it tougher for the japanese government to deal with the world s largest debt burden. another sign that china s economy is stabilizing, for a third month
let us talk about what is happening in commodities. guy: the world feels a little more empty in terms of the glass half-full argument. a lot of pressure in global trade, numbers out at the moment talking about navigating the challenging market. down, talking about china being a difficult place to. anna: better than estimated net levels, but the china comments are interesting. growth is expecting, but as a slower grace. guy: aluminum trading in a down side, probably the most key oil.dity copper, this is the price. i made this chart here for you to show you what is going on. oil is trading at a key level. gotas the financial price down to near 40, that is when i rock invaded kuwait. in the sand,ine using trading back down towards it. will we bounce back off of it? yes, history will tell us that. nevertheless, we have been down at level since the crisis. opec and u.s. producers playoff of each other, so much of the story about the falling price of oil. it is been about the u.s