There are good reasons for the BoJ to strip out only fresh food rather than all food from its preferred measure of core inflation. To be sure, the fact that inflation excluding all food and energy has fallen to just 1.6% underlines that price pressures still aren’t as broad-based as the Bank would like it to be. But with wage growth settling at higher levels, we expect services inflation to accelerate further.
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