{"id":157987,"date":"2025-11-28T12:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/157987\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T12:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:43:10","slug":"tokyo-inflation-beats-forecast-keeping-boj-on-rate-hike-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/157987\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo inflation beats forecast, keeping BOJ on rate hike path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo\u2019s inflation held steady in November and industrial output unexpectedly rose, keeping the Bank of Japan on track to consider an interest rate hike in December or January.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer prices excluding fresh food in the capital advanced 2.8% this month from a year earlier, the internal affairs ministry said Friday. Faster gains in electricity costs helped offset slower increases in processed food prices. The result was a tad stronger than the median economist forecast of 2.7% and matched the result for the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>The measure that also strips out energy also increased 2.8%, unchanged from last month. Service prices, a vital component to gauge the sustainability of inflation, increased 1.5% from a year earlier. Rice prices, a driving force for this year\u2019s price gains, rose 37.9%, continuing to decelerate after the pace hit a record high of 93.8% in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tokyo\u2019s inflation held steady in November and industrial output unexpectedly rose, keeping the Bank of Japan on track&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30379,138,8891,219,1943,23122,111,139,69,11081],"class_list":["post-157987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-economic-indicators","tag-economy","tag-inflation","tag-japanese-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}