. >> watanabe. >> president cook: watanabe. carrie gray, sylvia sherman. carrie, you're here twice. jessica bush man -- bushan. >> hi. my name is ana kearney, and i teach vocal and guitar. i'm a professional musician and a performer, and i've come from the professional world to become a teacher because of my passion for educating youth. okay. so let's talk about two things, the ittinerate teachers. if you have extra funding, i'm not wondering -- i'm wondering why you're not giving it to itinerate teachers, a lot of whom are living for their cars. why didn't we doing it for our public school elementary school students who also deserve a more rounded education? nobody works harder than a music student and creativity and innovation are supposed to be part of the fabric of america. how many great artists have come from america to the public school? i'll name you one. louie armstrong. so the second is vapa administrators. i have worked on coordinating the all-city musikfest value, and i want to say without the vapa administration, it could be so much harder for us to run that festival wh

watanabe are opening their purse strings and spending.l slowdown and domestic strength here in japan. >> what about the 2019 wage negotiations? where are we expecting them to go given that the labor market has looked pretty strong? >> very important point here. that is the next key focus here. you should expect wage gains, which last year came to around 2%. they're probably going to be around 2.3, 2.4%. not a very big lift up here but t is interesting you find that the wage gain is skewed by wage groups so the younger generation, university graduates actually seeing their base salaries rise by as much as 6% so the tightness in the labor marked is at the front end, the young generation. that is where the wage gains are coming through while the old mick jagger generation is still seeing wages decline. >> given everything happening with the global economy there seems to be a market expectation that the bank of japan could in fact employ some additional policy accommodation. this chart on the bloomberg federal bank he balance sheet. will the