It was the fastest year-on-year increase since March 2024, when it rose 2.9%. This chart depicts Japan's core, core core, goods, and services CPIs. "The strength in underlying inflation in ...

The annual inflation rate in Japan fell to 2.5% in September 2024 from 3.0% in the prior month, marking the lowest reading since April. Electricity prices increased the least in three months as ...

Japan’s core inflation rate, which excludes fresh food but includes fuel costs, slowed to 3% in February from 3.2% in January, but still exceeded forecasts of 2.9%. This marked the second ...

A Bank of Japan rate hike triggered an abrupt gain in value for the yen. That in turn impacted a huge global "carry trade" involving trillions of dollars. Markets around the world are seeing heavy ...

a sign of broadening price pressure that reinforces market expectations of further interest rate hikes. The data came in the wake of Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda's warning, made after ...