and christine lagarde and the bank of japan governor haruhiko kuroda have insight from the imf meetingsrom a big week in corporate earnings reports. johnson & johnson are among the companies quite happy with the result. >> we saw strength across all three of our segment. >> this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ this is "bloomberg best." i'm rishaad salamat. let's continue our global tour of the week's top business stories with more earnings reports from prominent companies, starting with the blowout set of numbers from netflix. ♪ >> netflix, one of the best stocks after posting earnings well above expectations. we also have a pretty good forecast for the fourth quarter subscriber growth. >> this forecast in the fourth quarter was the one that surprised me. it is the only time i've ever seen a nine for them. the more i dug into the international numbers, even if they had missed their forecast this year, they are posting stronger growth international order after quarter after quarter, which suggests that this idea is it will slowly build another market, whether europe or asia or latin america, and that

plus, imf managing director christine lagarde and haruhiko kuroda with insight from the imf meeting in bali. up next, more from a big week in corporate earnings reports. johnson and johnson among the companies quite happy with the result. >> we saw strength across all three of our segments. rishaad: this is bloomberg. ♪ rishaad: this is "bloomberg best." i am rishaad salamat. let's continue with more earnings reports from prominent companies, starting with a blowout set of numbers from netflix. >> netflix one of the least loved faang stocks after posting third-quarter earnings and subscriber growth numbers well above expectations, and a good fourth quarter forecasts for subscriber growth as well. >> the forecast for the fourth quarter was the one that surprised me because it is the only time i have seen a nine in the subscriber addition for them. the more i dug into the international numbers, even if they had missed their forecast this year they are posting , growth quarter after quarter after quarter, which suggests it will slowly build in other markets whether it is europe, asia, lat

the imf, world bank brought together the many global financial leaders, including haruhiko kuroda.signal a net it from its long-running program of monetary stimulus. ♪ what should market budgets be waiting for? when you are waiting to exit -- what will the signal be? changing interest rate? bond purchases? it is no more monetary operating target. it is cost control. it is cost control, it is current monetary easing. discuss exiting, exceeding monetary policy, when 2% target is met or is close to we can change the target, monetary operating target of interest rate in do force. ,ut at this moment, it is at 1% so we will continue the current control at the current level of interest. ♪ haslinda amin said down with the imf managing director christine lagarde. they spoke about the risks of a future financial crisis, and whether central banks still have room to respond. ♪ >> if you compare the situation today with previous crises, there is still now a limited policy space. but there a much stronger banking system. in the meantime, there has been strengthening of the capital base of many b

perhaps it could set the stage for the meeting this month, because we have heard that governor haruhiko kurodafinancial health of japan at the moment. bae is saying this could be some insight on the potential of any further tweaks we could see in the boj policy framework going forward. that could be interesting to watch. >> and bonds, looking ahead to the other events this week, after 150 basis point hikes, what will it do? investors are i think that decision, hoping for a boost to its nascent recovery. there has been quite a difficult time for them. saudi's fii, davos in the desert, there have been a string ofthere has been quite a diffict time for them. pullouts, including christine lagarde and techs. asian earnings as well. -- a busy sands china week ahead. that's it for bloomberg markets: asia. "daybreak: middle east" is next. ♪ comcast business built the nation's largest gig-speed network. then went beyond. beyond chasing down network problems. to knowing when and where there's an issue. beyond network complexity. to a zero-touch, one-box world. optimizing performance and budget. beyond h