{"id":305168,"date":"2026-02-27T17:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305168\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:27:17","slug":"tokyo-cpi-falls-below-bojs-target-complicating-rate-hike-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305168\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo CPI falls below BOJ\u2019s target, complicating rate hike message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Tokyo inflation gauge has eased to the slowest pace in more than a year as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi\u2019s utility subsidies curbed household energy costs, posing a communication challenge for the Bank of Japan as it looks to proceed with interest rate hikes.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer prices excluding fresh food rose 1.8% in the capital from a year earlier in February, the smallest gain since October 2024, according to figures released by the internal affairs ministry on Friday. That was a touch stronger than the median economist forecast of 1.7%. The Tokyo consumer price index report is a leading indicator for national price trends.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s data add to evidence that Japan&#8217;s price growth has entered a cooler phase largely owing to Takaichi&#8217;s anti-inflation steps and slowing growth in food costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tokyo inflation gauge has eased to the slowest pace in more than a year as Prime Minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,8891,219,1943,23122,111,139,69,11081],"class_list":{"0":"post-305168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economic-indicators","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-inflation","12":"tag-japanese-economy","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-tokyo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305168","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=305168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}