the bank of japan kept its main monetary stemless packet unchanged today governor kuroda did -- did suppresse market. jodie snyder joins us from tokyo. run us through those changes. the target for the asset purchase has not changed. bertram governor kuroda himself in a news conference. he kept making that point saying these were technical changes. they don't change the overall size of the program. by.inue to stand quantitative easing. we will continue to do it as long as it makes sense. also that they continue to stand by 2% inflation target. they will do their utmost to reach that target. he was making it clear that the program, they are tweaking the program. he knows of the changes are confusing. jonathan: will get to the potential for a move in 2016. but i want to talk to you about is the inflation target. he did mention crude. on brent. what is the risk of that inflation if it gets pushed back once more? give me more color. jodi: he was very firm about standing by the target. the drop in prices recently has made that more complicated. that will be a big issue. that is one of the things e

he takes care to make sure there is water at events and the vessel he drinks out of, stemless glasses, not stemmed and water bottles. the absence has thrown off the delivery. marco has a water thing says one affiliate. a water thing? megan, i know they have to fill -- they have to fill pages here, but is that much? >> they are acting like he is shooting black tar heroin. he has a real problem. he is making speeches all date long and doing town halls and he wants a little water. i read this article and he said there is ice in the glass and it makes noise. >> their response was politico lost his mind. you have officially lost your mind. why don't you go back to telling chelsea and hillary clinton you will give them easy interviews. >> politico may have lost their mind, but aren't you jealous of their page fuse from this afternoon? >> we are all talking about it. it is generating a little politico traffic. sometimes i work in a writer's room with the reporters and a newsroom, pu will. a newsroom if you will. you would think, that's kind of interesting, but isn't that more of a tweet? isn

they were trying to boost stem list -- stemless. this is the backdrop.sive, about three quarters of gdp. this is an edible. the cluster of lines on the bottom is anywhere from 22-25%. when it comes to the question of whether the bank of japan improved stimulus are not, it extended the maturity of debt it buys, but did not add to purchases. joe: you saw that it jumped really quickly after the news and then it tumbled. when i look at this chart i see a long time of doing things that does not have an effect. scarlet: a long effort of fighting deflation and i do not know how much success they have had. joe: real quickly, we have all this good data and the blue line is the difference between the current actual temperature in the united states subtracted from the normal temperature. as you can see it is surging, has been asked for nearly warm this year. here is the data that shows it. that is why natural gas prices are getting slammed. it will be around 60 degrees for christmas. scarlet: i think tomorrow will be the coldest day of the year. that is certainly t