Japan Labour Market (May) & Tokyo CPI (June)

The continued fall in the job-to-applicant ratio isn’t translating into a higher labour market and the bulk of the evidence suggests that the labour market has continued to tighten. And with underlying inflation gathering renewed momentum in Tokyo in June, we’re sticking to our forecast that the Bank of Japan will hike interest rates next month.

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