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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Daybreak Asia podcast. I'm Doug Chrisner. It's

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Speaker 2: the final trading day in November, and earlier we got

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Speaker 2: several key data points for the Japanese economy. First, there

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Speaker 2: was Tokyo CPI. Core inflation in the Japanese capital was

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Speaker 2: up in the month of November at an annual rate

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Speaker 2: of two point eight percent. Now, core excludes fresh food,

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Speaker 2: but the forecast was only for an increase of two

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Speaker 2: point seven percent, So a bit hotter than expected in

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Speaker 2: that regard, and this obviously would support a potential rate

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Speaker 2: hike from the Bank of Japan. For a closer look

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Speaker 2: now at markets in the Asia Pacific, I'm joined by

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Paul Dobson. Paul is Executive editor for Asia Markets.

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Speaker 2: He joins from our studios in Singapore. So what do

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Speaker 2: you think is this enough, this reading on core CPI

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Speaker 2: for Tokyo enough to move the needle when we were

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Speaker 2: considering a boj raid hike in December.

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Speaker 3: It still feels to me a little bit, Doug, like

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Speaker 3: it's too early for the Bank of Japan. You know,

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Speaker 3: they've backed down, they've been reticent they've taken their time

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Speaker 3: so far. Yes, there's plenty of evidence that there's an

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Speaker 3: opportunity here to raise interest rates, but the market expectation

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Speaker 3: really isn't there, and they tend not to move when

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Speaker 3: that isn't priced in. And I think that there's a

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Speaker 3: couple of reasons. One, they don't want to get away,

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Speaker 3: that too. Now. You know, that's despite the evidence that actually,

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Speaker 3: you know, the inflation is still quite high in the

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Speaker 3: cost of living is rising, and food price inflation, which

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Speaker 3: the moment. And one of the things that Takaichi actually

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Speaker 3: the way in the yen in particular, which remains kind

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Speaker 2: some of the other data points for Japan were far

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Speaker 2: above forecast. Industrial output at a gain of one point

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Speaker 2: So as long as we're talking about China, Paul I

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Speaker 2: Paul, when we continue the conversation in a moment, I'd

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Speaker 2: like to focus a little bit on the FED cutting

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Speaker 2: with Paul Dobson, Executive editor for Asia Markets, on the

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Speaker 2: Daybreak Asia podcast. Welcome back to the Daybreak Asia Podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm Doug Prisner speaking with Paul Dobson, Executive editor for

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Speaker 2: Asia Markets, joining from our studios in Singapore. So much

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Speaker 2: of what we have seen stateside, Paul, in terms of

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Speaker 3: Asia's markets have also been buoyed by this. What we

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Speaker 2: Development, particularly when you look at how highly correlated the

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Speaker 2: When we look for signs of kind of the risk

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Speaker 2: And right now we're above ninety one thousand for the

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Speaker 3: It's really interesting, isn't it. Just how much it feels

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Speaker 3: Oh, good question. We have ECB minutes. People are wondering

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Speaker 3: But otherwise I think you know, what's going to be

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