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Japan - National Tokyo CPI for April: +0.6% y/y (expected +0.6%)
National CPI y/y for April, +0.6% y/y expected 0.6%, prior was 2.3% (Note: The Bank of Japan has estimated that the sales tax hike (to 8 percent from 5 percent on April 1 2014) added 1.7 percentage points to the annual consumer inflation rate in April 2014, and 2.0 points from the following month. So subtract 2 from the PRIOR numbers) National CPI y/y excluding Fresh Food for April, +0.3% y/y expected 0.2%, prior was 2.2% National CPI excluding Food, Energy y/y for April, +0.4% y/y expected 0.3%, prior was 2.1% - Tokyo CPI y/y for May, +0.5% y/y expected 0.5%, prior was 0.7% (The Tokyo inflation data is for May, so ... (full story)