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Japan PPI stays elevated at 7.2%, misses forecast, but yen keeps BOJ hike case alive
Japan PPI stays elevated at 7.2%, misses forecast, but yen keeps BOJ hike case alive. The miss against forecast should not be read as genuine disinflation. At 7.2%, Japanese producer price growth remains near multi-year highs, and the short
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Japan PPI stays elevated at 7.2%, misses forecast, but yen keeps BOJ hike case alive. The miss against forecast should not be read as genuine disinflation. At 7.2%, Japanese producer price growth remains near multi-year highs, and the short
Japan PPI stays elevated at 7.2%, misses forecast, but yen keeps BOJ hike case alive
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Japan PPI stays elevated at 7.2%, misses forecast, but yen keeps BOJ hike case alive. The miss against forecast should not be read as genuine disinflation. At 7.2%, Japanese producer price growth remains near multi-year highs, and the short
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The miss against forecast should not be read as genuine disinflation. At 7.2%, Japanese producer price growth remains near multi-year highs, and the shortfall against the 7.4% consensus is a modest undershoot on an already elevated base rather than a meaningful turn in the trend. The more important number here is the 29.1% jump in yen-based import prices, a scale of imported cost pressure that keeps the structural case for a September BOJ hike firmly intact regardless of the headline miss. That framing lines up with the more hawkish undertone out of the RBA overnight, where Kent flagged upside…
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