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We kick things off this morning with Torsten's lot. He's here in our Bloomberg 1130

studios. He's the chief international economist at Deutsche Bank. Great to have you with us.

And let's start with this election in Japan. Let me get your thoughts on sort of howanned out better than I think the the snap

election in the UK a few months ago did for for the person who called it. What does it mean

for the economy looking at as though it seems like a

Shinsuabe is going to continue with another term as

Prime Minister.

Yeah, I mean as usual investors want a continuation of current policies.

In some cases of course they want change but in this case the mandate seems to be strong of

a evenomics to just continue pushing on in particular the third error of doing structural reform

of helping liberalizing labor markets, liberalizing product markets get the economy more competitive.

So I think the first point is that yes, this will continue your current policies and I think

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