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Japan Unemployment rate for December: 2.2% (expected 2.3%)

  
  Analysis
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The Tokyo area CPI is out at the same time, on a separate post

Japan Jobless rate for December 2.2%

  • expected 2.3%, prior 2.2%

Job to applicant ratio for December 1.57

  • expected 1.57, prior 1.57
Japan economy … 99 problems but unemployment ain’t one.

Japan – National CPI for March: 1.6% y/y (vs. 1.6% expected) & the rest of this data

  
Analysis, Education
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Japan inflation data:

National CPI y/y for March,  1.6%

  • expected 1.6%, prior was 1.5%

National CPI y/y excluding Fresh Food for March,  1.3%

  • expected 1.4%, prior was 1.3%

National CPI excluding Food, Energy y/y for March,  0.7%

  • expected 0.7%, prior was 0.8%

Tokyo CPI y/y for April,  2.9%

  • expected 3.0%, prior was 1.3% (Note: the ‘expected’ is much higher than the prior due to the introduction of the higher sales tax rate on April 1 …. note we get Tokyo inflation figures for April, with national figures are for March)

Tokyo CPI excluding Fresh Food y/y for April,  2.7% (this is a 22-year high … but, of course, skewed by the sales tax hike)

  • expected 2.8%, prior was 1.0% (ditto) (more…)
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