{"id":27217,"date":"2023-04-28T04:12:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T04:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/bank-of-japan-projects\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T04:13:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T04:13:49","slug":"bank-of-japan-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/bank-of-japan-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan projects core CPI of 1.6% in fiscal year 2025\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (Reuters) &#8211;     The Bank of Japan on Friday projected the country&#8217;s core consumer price index (CPI) to rise 1.6% in the fiscal year starting in April 2025, announcing the closely watched forecast for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>BOJ watchers have been awaiting the forecast to gauge the central bank&#8217;s perception of whether its 2% price target could be hit sustainably, which in turn would provide clues on the timing of an exit from its ultra-easy policy.<\/p>\n<p>For the current 2023 fiscal year, the BOJ said it expects core CPI to hit 1.8%, versus its previous projection of 1.6%, and 2.0% in fiscal 2024, instead of 1.8%.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Kaori Kaneko; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/bank-of-japan-projects\/shoppers-check-food-items-at-a-supermarket-in-tokyo\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportEconomy\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R047-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R047-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (Reuters) &#8211; The Bank of Japan on Friday projected the country&#8217;s core consumer price index (CPI) to rise 1.6% in the fiscal year starting in April 2025, announcing the closely watched forecast for the first time. BOJ watchers have been awaiting the forecast to gauge the central bank&#8217;s perception of whether its 2% price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-economy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportEconomy\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R047-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27219,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27217\/revisions\/27219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}