Japan - April Tokyo CPI Overall CPI inflation in Tokyo rose to 2.5% YoY in April. The measure of all items less food, which is the official target for the BOJ, reached 1.9% YoY, which excluding the sales-tax boosted inflation of 2014, was the highest in several decades. A lot of this reflects
Japan - March trimmed mean CPI The BOJ's calculation of trimmed mean CPI moved up in March to 1.1% YoY, equal with the previous record high in the series last reached in 2008. The details though were a little soft.
Japan - February machinery orders Even allowing for month-to-month volatility, Japanese machine orders in February were soft.
