{"id":645739,"date":"2026-10-14T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/645739\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T03:00:12","slug":"japan-ppi-unexpectedly-eases-in-sept-on-stronger-yen-cooling-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/645739\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan PPI unexpectedly eases in Sept on stronger yen, cooling oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Japan_economy_01.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>                                            <\/p>\n<p>Japanese producer price index inflation unexpectedly cooled in September, pressured by a stronger yen and as some import prices, especially those of oil and gas, fell during the month.<\/p>\n<p>PPI grew 6.8% year-on-year, Bank of Japan data showed on Tuesday. The print missed market expectations it would remain steady at a 3-\u00bd year high of 7.6%.<\/p>\n<p>PPI fell 0.3% month-on-month, missing expectations for growth of 0.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The drop was spurred by strength in the yen, following currency market from Tokyo and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Cooling oil and commodity prices also factored into lower inflation for the month, especially as oil fell in September on some improving flows in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>But despite September\u2019s drop, Japanese PPI inflation still remained high, keeping markets on edge over more interest rate hikes by the BOJ.<\/p>\n<p>The central bank hiked rates by a cumulative 50 basis points this year amid increasing concerns over sticky inflation.<\/p>\n<p>High commodity prices and a weak yen spurred sharp gains in Japanese PPI inflation this year, which was then seen spilling over into consumer inflation.<br \/>Source: Investing.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese producer price index inflation unexpectedly cooled in September, pressured by a stronger yen and as some import&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-645739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645739","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=645739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}