Financial calendar in Asia Friday, August 29, 2025 – Japan inflation indicator (Tokyo CPI)

There’s a cascade of information to come back from Japan in the present day.

Yesterday we had Financial institution of Japan financial coverage board member Nakagawa emphasising knowledge dependence, though the main target she talked about was the following Tankan report (which needs to be due on September 30 or October 1)

• BOJ’s Nakagawa: Uncertainty stays excessive on impression of tariffs
• Recap: BOJ’s Nakagawa warns on tariff dangers, says Tankan survey key for outlook
• BOJ’s Nakagawa: Will make coverage selections at every assembly primarily based on laborious knowledge

The large knowledge level in the present day is the Tokyo August CPI.

• Nationwide-level CPI knowledge for this month will comply with in about three weeks, it takes longer to assemble and collate the nationwide knowledge.
• Tokyo CPI is a sub-index of the nationwide CPI
• It measures the change in costs of products and providers within the Tokyo metropolitan space
• Its thought-about a number one indicator of nationwide CPI traits as a result of Tokyo is the biggest metropolis in Japan and is a significant financial hub
• Traditionally, Tokyo CPI knowledge has been simply barely increased than nationwide Japan CPI knowledge. The price of residing in Tokyo is a contact increased than in most different components of Japan. Increased rents, for instance

Tokyo CPI is exp[ected to have dipped again slightly from the July studying.

• This snapshot from the investingLive financial knowledge calendar.
• The instances within the left-most column are GMT.
• The numbers within the right-most column are the ‘prior’ (earlier month/quarter because the case could also be) consequence. The quantity within the column subsequent to that, the place there’s a quantity, is the consensus median anticipated.

This text was written by Aaron Cutchburt at investinglive.com.