Fewer Japanese households expect prices to rise a year from now – BOJ survey

Fewer Japanese households expect prices to rise a year from now - BOJ survey
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TOKYO (Reuters) – The ratio of Japanese households expecting prices to rise a year from now stood at 85.7%, a quarterly central bank survey for September showed on Thursday, down from 87.1% in June.

The ratio of households expecting prices to rise five years from now, slipped to 78.3% in September, down from 79.8% in June, the survey showed.

(Reporting by Tetsushi Kajimoto; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)

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