{"id":438331,"date":"2026-09-18T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/japan-august-inflation-headline-cpi-1-9-y-y-expected-2-438331\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T06:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T23:30:22","slug":"japan-august-inflation-headline-cpi-1-9-y-y-expected-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/japan-august-inflation-headline-cpi-1-9-y-y-expected-2-438331\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan August inflation: Headline CPI 1.9% y\/y (expected 2%)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Just the data here, I&#8217;ll have more to come on this separately.<\/p>\n<p>August y\/y headline CPI 1.9%<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>expected 2.0%, prior\u00a01.9%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CPI Ex-Food and Energy (AKA core-core CPI) 1.7% <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>expected 2.0%, prior 1.8%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ex-Food CPI (AKA core CPI) 1.7% <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>expected 1.8%, prior\u00a01.8%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Background:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/central-banks\/preview-boj-rate-hike-bet-stays-intact-as-japan-awaits-august-cpi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow\">Preview: BoJ rate hike bet stays intact as Japan awaits August CPI<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still to come:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/central-banks\/preview-boj-set-to-hike-rates-today-focus-turns-to-pace-and-yen-reaction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow\">Preview: BoJ set to hike rates today, focus turns to pace and yen reaction<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just the data here, I&#8217;ll have more to come on this separately. August y\/y headline CPI 1.9% expected 2.0%, prior\u00a01.9% CPI Ex-Food and Energy (AKA core-core CPI) 1.7% expected 2.0%, prior 1.8%&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-438331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438331","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=438331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}