Japanese inflation keeps falling
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Japanese inflation falls for a seventh straight month making a rate rise by the end of the year less likely.
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INFLATION fell again in August, slipping further below the governmentâs 2 per cent target, driven down by clothing and footwear retailers failing to raise prices after a poor summer.
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Japan's economic recovery remains on track despite figures Friday that showed a jump in the nation's jobless rate and a continued decline in consumer prices, the economy minister said.
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Japan&#39;s central bank yesterday predicted the economy would shift into inflation for the first time since 1997 during the next fiscal year, though it strongly signalled that this would not trigger a tightening of monetary policy.
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Japan's GDP fell by 0.1% in the last quarter of 2004, taking the country into recession.
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Japan's Nikkei average fell for a fifth  straight day to hit a one-month closing low on Wednesday as key  exporters and techs such as Kyocera Corp. extended losses on  renewed caution about the country's economic outlook.
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Japan&#39;s central bank offered a bleaker assessment of the country&#39;s economy Friday for the first time in more than a year and a half, citing weaker industrial production and slowing export growth.
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Japan's unemployment rate fell to 4.1% in July, official figures show, as the economy continues to recover.
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Japan&#39;s Nikkei 225 average is down more than two percent by mid-morning Monday after the dollar&#39;s tumble against the yen hit tech firms and exporters.
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Business sentiment among big Japanese  manufacturers has sunk to a two-year low, a Bank of Japan  survey showed on Friday, reinforcing expectations that any rise  in interest rates will be delayed to late next year.
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Japan's Nikkei average fell for a fifth straight day to hit a one-month closing low on Wednesday as key exporters and techs such as Kyocera Corp. extended losses on renewed caution about the country's economic outlook.
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Consumer Prices Index inflation, the Governmentâs target measure, fell to 1.3 per cent in August, down from 1.4 per cent in July.
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Business & money: Drop means annual rate of price inflation is at lowest point since December 2005
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The minister of economic and fiscal policy, Hiroko Ota, said there had been little change in price trends in January, after a report showed inflation slowed to zero percent for the first time since May. âPrices continue to be flat,â Ms. Ota said. Core consumer prices, which exclude fresh food, were unchanged from a year earlier, matching the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. Household spending climbed 0.6 percent in January, the statistics bureau said, the first increase since December 2005. Economists expected a 0.3 percent drop. The jobless rate was 4 percent, unchanged after the previous monthâs figure was revised from 4.1 percent, the agency said.
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TOKYO, Tuesday, Nov. 28 (Bloomberg News) Â JapanÂs retail sales unexpectedly fell for a second month, undermining the central bankÂs case that consumer spending will accelerate and help justify raising its interest rates, which are the lowest among major economies.
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Britain&#39;s inflation rate fell in August further below its 2.0 percent government-set upper limit target with clothing and footwear prices actually falling, official data showed on Tuesday.
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Economic growth in Japan slows down as the country experiences a drop in domestic and corporate spending.