Toru Fujioka

1 week ago | bloomberglinea.com | Toru Fujioka

Bloomberg — La medida clave de la inflación al consumo en Japón se aceleró más de lo esperado hasta alcanzar un nuevo máximo de dos años, mientras el primer ministro Shigeru Ishiba se prepara para las elecciones de verano y el Banco de Japón reflexiona sobre la trayectoria de los precios en el país.

1 week ago | japantimes.co.jp | Toru Fujioka

Japan’s key consumer inflation measure accelerated to a fresh two-year high as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba gears up for a summer election and the Bank of Japan mulls the country’s price trajectory. Consumer prices excluding fresh food quickened for a third month to 3.7% from a year earlier in May, according to an internal affairs ministry's release Friday. That’s the fastest pace since January 2023 and above a 3.6% median estimate of surveyed economists.

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Toru Fujioka

Price tags on grocery items in Tokyo. Photographer: Shiho Fukada/Bloomberg(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s key consumer inflation measure accelerated more than expected to a fresh two-year high, as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba gears up for a summer election and the Bank of Japan mulls the country’s price trajectory. Consumer prices excluding fresh food quickened for a third month to 3.7% from a year earlier in May, according to a Ministry of Internal Affairs release Friday.

1 week ago | hk.news.yahoo.com | Toru Fujioka

Toru Fujioka2025年6月19日 下午7:47【彭博】-- 日本的關鍵消費者通膨指標加速至兩年來新高。日本即將在夏季舉行參議院選舉，而生活成本是個重要議題。據總務省周五發布的數據，5月份不包括生鮮食品的消費者價格同比成長3.7%，連續第三個月加快。這是自2023年1月以來的最大價格漲幅，高於彭博調查經濟學家3.6%的預期中值。食品價格再次成為推動通膨的主要因素。全國主食大米價格較上年同期上漲101.7%。推薦閱讀：東京消費者價格創兩年來最大漲幅 料將令日本央行保持加息路徑原文標題Japan’s Prices Climb by Most in Two Years Ahead of Election--聯合報導 Paul Jackson.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Toru Fujioka

1 day agoCNN — President Donald Trump on Thursday continued his extraordinary and targeted verbal attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, calling for a massive 2.5-point reduction in interest rates. Despite appointing Powell to the role in 2017, Trump has frequently chastised the Fed chair for keeping …