Markets are fretting that the outcome of the Upper House election on July 20 could strip the ruling coalition of its majority ...

The Bank of Japan's increasing caution around raising interest rates further relies heavily on a relatively obscure inflation reading, which policy doves argue suggests weak consumer demand but ...

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With prices still rising faster than salaries, the actual purchasing power of Japanese workers continues to shrink – despite ...

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Major central banks have hiked their policy rates in the face of surging inflation since the Covid-19 pandemic — but the Bank of Japan has been an outlier. It has stayed put despite headline and ...

Japanese real wages in May fell at the fastest pace in nearly two years as persistent inflation continued to outpace wage ...

Any measures to ease inflation in Japan must be speedy and shouldn’t impede the government’s ability to fund social services, Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday, in a ...

Inflation Trends Supportive of Upside for Japan ETFs May 16, 2024 — 08:08 am EDT Written by editorial@vettafi.com (ETF Trends) for ETF Trends -> ...

The core inflation figure was higher than expectations of 3.4%. Headline inflation climbed 3.6% from a year ago. Japan’s core inflation accelerated to 3.5% in April, government data showed on ...

Japan's core consumer inflation has exceeded the BOJ's 2% target for well over two years, prodding the BOJ to end negative rates in March and raise short-term rates to 0.25% in July.

If the United States’ bout of rising prices soon eases, its economy could fall back into the cycle of weak inflation that preceded the pandemic — a situation much like Japan’s.