{"id":837605,"date":"2026-07-31T06:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837605\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T06:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:42:12","slug":"tokyo-inflation-up-on-year-for-second-month-keeping-boj-on-rate-hike-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837605\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo inflation up on year for second month, keeping BOJ on rate hike path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo\u2019s inflation pace has quickened for a second month, keeping the Bank of Japan on track to raise interest rates again in coming months, after the board stood pat on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The consumer price index (CPI) excluding fresh food rose 1.9% in July from a year earlier in the capital, the internal affairs ministry reported on Friday. That compared with a 1.8% gain forecast by economists.<\/p>\n<p>A gauge that excludes both fresh food and energy \u2014 closely watched by the BOJ as a gauge of underlying inflation \u2014 gained 2%, while overall consumer prices also rose 2%. The Tokyo CPI is considered a leading indicator for nationwide price trends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tokyo\u2019s inflation pace has quickened for a second month, keeping the Bank of Japan on track to raise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,10423,46,135,17415,18530],"class_list":["post-837605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","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\/837605","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=837605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}