{"id":585027,"date":"2026-08-15T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/585027\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T01:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:00:18","slug":"japan-gdp-steady-inflation-near-boj-target-ing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/585027\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan: GDP steady, inflation near BoJ target \u2013 ING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ING highlights that market consensus sees Japan\u2019s preliminary Q2 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) holding at 0.5% quarter-on-quarter, with Private Consumption remaining the main growth driver. Headline and core Consumer Price Index (CPI) due 21 August are expected at 2.0% and 1.8% year-on-year, respectively. The projected inflation pickup would return national headline inflation to the Bank of Japan\u2019s (BoJ) 2% target, mainly on import price pressures.<\/p>\n<p>Stable growth, modest inflation pickup<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Market consensus is for Japan\u2019s preliminary Q2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/economic-calendar\" data-fxs-autoanchor=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GDP<\/a>, due on 17 August, to remain unchanged at 0.5% quarter-on-quarter, seasonally adjusted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Private consumption is expected to remain the main engine of growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Japan releases its headline and core CPI on 21 August.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The market expects a moderate increase to 2.0% YoY and 1.8% YoY, respectively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The projected acceleration in headline inflation would bring the national print back to the BoJ\u2019s 2% target for the first time in recent months, driven primarily by persistent import price pressures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxstreet.com\/info\/how-fxstreet-uses-ai?utm_medium=internal&amp;utm_source=ai-disclaimer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Know more.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ING highlights that market consensus sees Japan\u2019s preliminary Q2 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) holding at 0.5% quarter-on-quarter, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-585027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585027","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=585027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}