{"id":437504,"date":"2026-09-04T07:09:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/household-spending-in-japan-is-the-worst-in-more-than-18-months-437504\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:09:57","slug":"household-spending-in-japan-is-the-worst-in-more-than-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/household-spending-in-japan-is-the-worst-in-more-than-18-months-437504\/","title":{"rendered":"Household spending in Japan is the worst in more than 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Japanese Household Spending July:<\/p>\n<p>\n-3.6% y\/y, biggest drop since January 2024<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>expected -1.6% ,prior -3.3%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/investinglive-asia-pacific-market-news-oil-hits-six-week-high\/\" rel=\"follow\">September BOJ hike<\/a> is near-fully priced (~87%), driven mainly by rising inflation and yields, not consumption strength. Weak household spending is a known, ongoing theme, not new information, and doesn&#8217;t touch the inflation and yen-weakness arguments actually driving the hike case. The BOJ is tightening despite soft spending, not because of strong spending.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Household Spending July: -3.6% y\/y, biggest drop since January 2024 expected -1.6% ,prior -3.3% &#8212; September BOJ hike is near-fully priced (~87%), driven mainly by rising inflation and yields, not consumption&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-437504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437504","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=437504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}