{"id":761730,"date":"2026-06-26T04:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761730\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:41:09","slug":"tokyo-inflation-picks-up-keeping-boj-on-track-for-further-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/761730\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo inflation picks up, keeping BOJ on track for further hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo\u2019s key inflation gauge picked up for the first time in eight months, keeping the Bank of Japan\u00a0on a trajectory to raise interest rates further.<\/p>\n<p>The consumer price index (CPI) excluding fresh food rose 1.6% in June from a year earlier in the capital, according to data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released Friday. The reading was in line with the median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters predicted the gauge would accelerate from last year\u2019s reading, which was depressed by certain government relief measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tokyo\u2019s key inflation gauge picked up for the first time in eight months, keeping the Bank of Japan\u00a0on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17416,45,49,48,10423,46,135,17415,18530],"class_list":["post-761730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economic-indicators","tag-economy","tag-inflation","tag-japanese-economy","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}