With corporate profits hitting fresh record highs, the BoJ’s concern that US tariffs will provide a major headwind to business investment and wage growth looks increasingly overdone. To be sure, profits in the manufacturing sector have stalled but there are good reasons to think they will soon rebound in earnest.
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