Japan February CPI up 1.0%, Unemployment up 0.1%, Household Spending Unchanged

March 28, 2008
By Ken Worsley


We will be getting into these figures a bit more later in the day, but for now just a quick note on the numbers released this morning by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications:

February 2008 Nationwide Consumer Price Index: +1.0%
March 2008 Tokyo CPI: +0.6%

Unemployment: 3.9% (+0.1 from January)

February 2008 Household Spending: Unchanged at 275,827 yen from last year
Monthly household income: 476,282 yen, -0.1% from last year

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