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Japan crawls out of recession with growth slower than expected. How convincing is japans exit from recession . A lot of economists saying that this is a disappointing figure and yet it shows a slight improvement. It shows a slight improvement, but in many ways, what this number is about is the evils of raising taxes in a deflationary environment. Most economists would agree that raising sale taxes in april of last year was a poorly timed move. In many ways, consumer demand has never quite recovered. When you look at the enthusiasm toward abenomics, you dont see a lot of it here in japan. A lot...

The labour party takes a beating. Those are pictures of David Cameron arriving back at 10 downing street earlier on. How are the markets reacting . Jonathan guy, you saw the fx moves. Sterling stronger. You see the move here on the bloomberg terminal. Theres the exit poll. The pound surging not just against the dollar, against the euro as well. Heading for the best day since 2009. Dont just call this a tory bounce. This is about certainty. I go straight to one week volatility. The pound against the dollar. You see the expected price swing coming forward. What you see there is the scottish refe...

Lender lloyds, posting a profit bigger than estimated. For more, lets bring in mark and richard. Richard, lets start with you. In terms of what lloyds is doing, this is better than expected. Richard it is. These numbers are pretty good. There are no items really below the line, which we werent expecting. There was a charge for the tsb. However making a 1. 2 billion pound profit after that is still pretty good. They also said they expect to beat their own guidance for profitability margins this year. That is pretty good for a bank that is already producing some of the best profitability among b...

I mentioned this earlier, all the training that weve undertaken a. So weve really made an effort to highlight about how important it is. But no question. Ideas come anybody was great ideas about how we can be better, be better about what we are doing and be more effective, by all means im all in years. Even discussing and thinking about todays event, so what more do we need to be doing . Im always open to hearing good ideas from whatever source, whether its private sector, those in the room. Im happy to hear them. We only just have a couple minutes left, and i got one question from the audienc...

Start of 2017. Not to be outdone, the first minister of scotland was setting the agenda north of the border. It is about fundamental democratic choice for scotland. The peoples right to choose a government of their own. [applause] the politicians were not backwards about coming forward. Even the Security Services made a brief foray out of the shadows with the reactions to recent security leaks. Our adversaries are rubbing their hands with glee. Al qaeda is lacking it up. The first healthy green shoots of recovery were coming into sight according to figures. As the coalition claimed, it also sh...