A further rise in business investment. Private consumption fell on the quarter as consumers struggle with rising living costs and falling real wages. How do you think investors are going to respond to this news . The japanese economy is performing quite well. I dont think it will be a big market reaction. Simply because the indications for Monetary Policy are not clear cut. The bank ofjapan is already quite optimistic about the gdp growth, and what really matters for Monetary Policy is how global inflation is. Strong gdp growth, the margin, Rising Inflationary pressures. As we have seen in the past, it can turn around things injapan, so the wage growth really matters, how much it will ease Household Burden on the cost of living. In terms of the bank ofjapan, looking at whether they are actually going to raise Interest Rates after quite some time, what do you project . We time, what do you proect . We dont time, what do you proect . We dont thinkfi time, what do you project . Dont thin
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a further rise in business investment. private consumption fell on the quarter as consumers struggle with rising living costs and falling real wages. how do you think investors are going to respond to this news? the japanese economy is performing quite well. i don t think it will be a big market reaction. simply because the indications for monetary policy are not clear cut. the bank ofjapan is already quite optimistic about the gdp growth, and what really matters for monetary policy is how global inflation is. strong gdp growth, the margin, rising inflationary pressures. as we have seen in the past, it can turn around things injapan, so the wage growth really matters, how much it will ease household burden on the cost of living.
we did get some indication today and it did move markets that the fed may be looking to start raising interest rates in march. had a big market reaction. the dow ended up finishing lower on the session. it was green for most of the day. but this is what president biden said needed to happen. he punted to the fed to do something about these high prices. final thought on that. well, i think the markets heard no raise right now. and got excited for a little bit today. but it s already baked in the cake that those increases are coming, as you well know. and i think that inflation is the thing that is going to effect votes the most when you get to november. good deal. bret, thank you. we ll see you at 6:00. special report. you bet. stock tumbling this afternoon late in the day after the federal reserve big signal to push those interest rates up and bring inflation down. susan leaveman has been tracking the action for us. susan, markets reabouted. they didn t seem to love it.
northeast. martha, remember how cold it has been across parts of the northeast the last couple days? a big warm-up. we could be at 90 on thursday. martha: winter to sumner a day. maria, thank you very much. we ll see you later. bill: better than that 42 degrees on saturday. check out these numbers. we re up over 200 points already today. 15,500. man, what we have never closed this high before. martha: nope. bill: but you re jumping on news consumer sentiment is the highest level we ve seen in five years. we saw home sales last hour trending higher up 10%. martha: up 10% in home sales in one month is a huge jump. big market reaction to that this morning. we ll keep an eye on that. also coming up attorney general eric holder facing down yet another controversy, from fast and furious to the irs to the justice department investigating the media. he is now they saying perhaps there is some remorse he is expressing. we ll tell you what he s talking about.