{"id":625,"date":"2024-10-18T09:16:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/otetmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2024-10-18T09:17:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:17:46","slug":"japan-inflation-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otetmarkets.com\/blog\/news\/japan-inflation-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Inflation Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japan\u2019s annual inflation rate slowed to 2.5% in September, down from 3.0% in August, reaching its lowest point since April. This decline reflects easing pressures on energy and consumer prices, with electricity price growth falling to 15.2% from 26.2% in August, and gas prices rising more slowly at 7.7% compared to 11.1%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sectors Showing Price Moderation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Inflation moderated across various sectors. Food prices grew by 3.4%, down from 3.6%, while household items and transport saw smaller increases at 4.8% and 0.1%, respectively. Communication costs dropped further by 2.6%, and education remained deflationary at -1.0%. Meanwhile, housing and healthcare inflation held steady at 0.7% and 1.5%, while clothing and miscellaneous prices edged slightly higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Core Inflation and CPI Trends<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Core inflation, which excludes food and energy, hit a five-month low of 2.4%, down from 2.8% in August but slightly above the 2.3% forecast. On a monthly basis, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell by 0.3%, marking its first drop since February 2023. These figures suggest inflationary pressures are easing, signaling a possible shift in economic conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s annual inflation rate slowed to 2.5% in September, down from 3.0% in August, reaching its lowest point since April. This decline reflects easing pressures on energy and consumer prices, with electricity price growth falling to 15.2% from 26.2% in August, and gas prices rising more slowly at 7.7% compared to 11.1%. Sectors Showing Price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2],"tags":[37,27],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-economy-news","category-news","tag-financialnews","tag-marketanalysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otetmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otetmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otetmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otetmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otetmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/otetmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/otetmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otetmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otetmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otetmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otetmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}