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Japanese (Tokyo) CPI, and jobs, data is due at 2330 GMT, which is 1930 US Eastern time.
The other data follows at 2350 / 1950.
Japanese and mainland China markets are open today.
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For the headline Tokyo CPI the expected I’ve seen is 2.5%, slightly down from 2.6% but still above the Bank of Japan target level of 2%. Last week the Bank of Japan raised rates for the first time in 17 years. The decision was a drawn-out one. I linked to a piece from Reuters which looked at the process, and which implicitly raises the question of much independence the BOJ really has (a question plenty of people have raised before):
Yesterday we had the ‘Summary’ of that meeting published. In a nutshell the summary of the Summary is that it’ll be a very slow rate hike cycle going forward, which will keep yen under pressure as a carry currency.
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Tokyo area inflation data: