boj speech, 2025-12-01
Looking ahead, the year-on-year rate of increase in the CPI for all items excluding fresh food is likely to decelerate temporarily to a level below 2 percent through the first half of fiscal 2026, with the waning of the effects of the rise in food prices, and partly due to the effects of government measures to address rising prices, such as abolishing the former provisional gasoline tax rate.
Sentiment: neutral
Topic: mp_inflation