{"id":6907,"date":"2023-04-12T00:08:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T00:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/japan-march-wholesale-inflation\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T00:08:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T00:08:37","slug":"japan-march-wholesale-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/japan-march-wholesale-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan March wholesale inflation slows for 3rd straight month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (Reuters) &#8211;     Japan&#8217;s wholesale prices rose 7.2% in March from a year earlier, with the pace of increase slowing for the third straight month, data showed on Wednesday, offering some relief to households and firms hit by a steady rise in raw material costs.<\/p>\n<p>The gain in the corporate goods price index (CGPI), which measures the price companies charge each other for their goods and services, was roughly in line with a median market forecast for a 7.1% gain. It followed a revised 8.3% increase in February.<\/p>\n<p>Rising global commodity and fuel costs have pushed Japan&#8217;s wholesale and consumer inflation to multi-decade highs, heightening market expectations the Bank of Japan (BOJ) may soon phase out its massive stimulus programme.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Leika Kihara; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/japan-march-wholesale-inflation\/a-woman-is-seen-through-glass-window-of-a-display\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportEconomy\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3B003-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3B003-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (Reuters) &#8211; Japan&#8217;s wholesale prices rose 7.2% in March from a year earlier, with the pace of increase slowing for the third straight month, data showed on Wednesday, offering some relief to households and firms hit by a steady rise in raw material costs. The gain in the corporate goods price index (CGPI), which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6907","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_LYNXMPEJ3B003-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907","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=6907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6909,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions\/6909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}