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Japan - March services PPI
The services PPI doesn't look as perky as some other inflation leads, but does indicate underlying inflation at least remaining around the current 1% for the next 2-3 months.
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Japan - March CPI
Headline CPI in March rose 1.2% YoY. That leaves inflation below previous peaks in 2008, 2013 and 2017, but the headline CPI data suffer from a lot of distortions, and more accurate measures indicate inflation is already near highs not seen in the last thirty years.
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Japan - February machinery orders
Even allowing for month-to-month volatility, Japanese machine orders in February were soft.