{"id":433246,"date":"2026-07-07T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/japan-data-may-2026-wage-miss-but-growth-solid-household-spending-better-than-expected-433246\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T06:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:35:00","slug":"japan-data-may-2026-wage-miss-but-growth-solid-household-spending-better-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/japan-data-may-2026-wage-miss-but-growth-solid-household-spending-better-than-expected-433246\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan data, May 2026: Wage miss but growth solid, Household spending better than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>May 2026 data from Japan. <\/p>\n<p>Household spending:<\/p>\n<p>+3.7% m\/m <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>expected +1.4%, prior +1.6%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>-0.3% y\/y<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>expected -2.5%, prior -0.5%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wages:<\/p>\n<p>Average Cash Earnings +3.2% y\/y<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>expected +3.4%, prior +3.5%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Same Sample Base Cash Earnings +2.9% <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>prior +2.9%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overtime Pay +2.9% y\/y<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>prior +4.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more to come on this separately. <\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2026 data from Japan. Household spending: +3.7% m\/m expected +1.4%, prior +1.6% -0.3% y\/y expected -2.5%, prior -0.5% Wages: Average Cash Earnings +3.2% y\/y expected +3.4%, prior +3.5%) Same Sample Base&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}