{"id":120091,"date":"2025-11-07T07:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/120091\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T07:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:19:11","slug":"japanese-households-boost-spending-despite-inflation-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/120091\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese households boost spending despite inflation hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s household spending rose for a fifth month, providing some support for an economy that analysts say contracted in the third quarter, but coming in below expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Outlays by households adjusted for inflation gained 1.8% in September from a year earlier, led by transportation and entertainment, the internal affairs ministry reported Friday. The result missed the median economist estimate of a 2.5% rise, with falling spending on housing and education dragging on overall figures.<\/p>\n<p>Consumption accounts for more than half of Japan\u2019s gross domestic product. While spending held up despite the hit from inflation, a GDP report on Nov. 17 is forecast to show the economy has contracted in the three months through September, ending a five-quarter period of expansion. Exports have fallen while housing starts dropped due to regulatory changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s household spending rose for a fifth month, providing some support for an economy that analysts say contracted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,9513,184,85,932,46,14989],"class_list":["post-120091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economic-indicators","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-inflation","tag-israel","tag-japanese-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}