i am courtney collins, this is bloomberg.vonne: thank you. the boj governor told bloomberg he will continue with very accommodative monetary policy and maintain the current pace of asset purchases for some time to come. inflation rising, will it keep providing stimulus? let's bring in our policy editor kathleen hays. was there anything new, what was the main takeaway? >> inflation is rising slowly, but continues to rise. week beforeng one the bank of japan meets. they will have a policy report, change their forecast on growth, inflation. he is also giving us foreshadowing of what we can expect when we get that information next week. even with a stronger yen, up 7% this year against the dollar, still expects inflation to reach 2% sometime next year. let's see how far the bank of japan have to go on that. what you see is the yellow line, that is the overall year on year inflation rate at 0.3%. you can see this one is above zero. if you go to the white line, fresh food prices, 0.2%, that is far below. it was higher when energy p

i am courtney collins, this is bloomberg. shery: thank you.counting down to major market opened in the asian-pacific. in more, here is our editor sydney. the focus will be on job data out of australia. it is supposed to have improved in march, but it is often unpredictable. what you watching out for? like you said, it is just a headline number, it will probably have an effect on the dollar. the other thing we are watching his high oil prices, which fell the most in a year overnight, almost back down to before donald trump was elected. watchingthing we are is if the selloff in shares continues. shares fell 7% yesterday after t definitive plans to enter the telecom market here in australia. ramy: it looks like president trump's comments about the dollar will ripple through asian markets today. what are you looking ahead to? strengthened, that is going to show up in japanese equities. futures are foreshadowing a drop their, and really across the region. later in the day we will be looking for trade data from china. the later in the day, earnings

i am courtney collins, this is bloomberg.etty: following up on the output numbers from newcrest. more output numbers as well. from thetting word 1.285t producer at million tons. 17y revised their fiscal output mind. they had a mind that underwent a fire -- mine that underwent a fire. guidance, netok coal output. also seeing south african coal output at 30 million tons for fiscal year 2017. those are the two big output numbers we're looking for. we will see how it trades and 45 minutes time. looking ahead, an in-depth look at president trump's tax plan. best selling author ed conrad and a hedge fund manager. decisions at wells fargo. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ betty: this is daybreak asia, i am betty lou in new york. yvonne: and i am yvonne man in hong kong. a big day for central banks. the boj and ecb releasing latest polity decisions. both are expected to stay the course today. investors are looking for any signals from mario draghi on which the ecb might taper stimulus. with japanese inflation below says therget, kuroda boj wil

i am courtney collins, this is bloomberg.et's get more on president trump and all the issues surrounding him these days, including the removal of the chief strategist, stephen bannon, from the national security council. the shuffling we have been hearing about within his inner circle. bob is joining me, he is the former chairman and ceo of chrysler and home depot. bob, so great to see you. bob: great to be here. betty: we talked about this so many times, with trump here in office, finally a ceo here running the white house, how do you think he has done so far? bob: to be candid, he has mixed reviews. there are things i think he is doing extremely well. the fact that he does of a business orientation and he has reached out and met with union leaders, auto industry, technology, health care etc. is a positive and good thing. we had eight years -- betty: but? bob: i will get to that. that we have had eight years of low, slow growth and almost the heisman against business from the previous administration. reaching out has graded p

i am courtney collins, this is bloomberg.umber painting an image of a brightening global economy, better to accommodate tightening. stanley fischer remains optimistic about falling unemployment and rising inflation in europe. china's economy is on more solid footing. let's bring in the fed reporter steve matthews. signal, an optimistic despite the market darling back expectations of future fed rates. you capture that exactly right. it was a very optimistic for trail of how things are going internationally. stan fischer pointed out the downside risk to growth was the lowest it had been in a few years. he said global expansion is more entrenched than it has been in a few years. he went around the itrld and said exit -- brex would cause volatility, but it did not happen. he said european unemployment was lower and inflation moving toward targeting europe and that china was showing solid footing. , which in thisf week raised its global growth forecast for the first time since 2014. it is worth noting that stan fischer's views are

i am courtney collins, this is bloomberg.vonne: a big story the asian markets will be watching is the data from japan. bank of japan says it is too early to talk about it exit plan from a high-powered policy of monetary still -- stimulus. but they stuck to their guns when it comes to the 2% inflation target. bring our policy editor kathleen hays, joining us live from tokyo. what are we expecting, is data going to match what kuroda said yesterday? kathleen: governor kuroda is staking a lot of his forecast on inflation steadily rising for that 2% target. the labor market is getting tighter. today we look at the japan jobless rate, it rose to 2.9%. also, jobs to applicants rate supposed of old at 1.43. 1.4 jobs open for every single job applicant. jump into the bloomberg and you lines, one going in one direction. the job applicant ratio is rising. they are working in the direction governor kuroda and his team want to see. here is what is more troublesome. household spending rising 0.1% year-over-year, after failing 4% in februar