Economic calendar in Asia Friday, 20 October – Japan inflation data incoming

<p>Japanese inflation data for September headlines the economic calendar. Three weeks ago we had the Tokyo area CPI data for September:</p><ul><li>Tokyo CPI is a sub-index of the national CPI</li><li>It measures the change in prices of goods and services in the Tokyo metropolitan area</li><li>Its considered a leading indicator of national CPI trends because Tokyo is the largest city in Japan and is a major economic hub</li></ul><p>It remains running hot but was down a little on August:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/all-tokyo-area-september-cpi-data-comes-in-way-above-the-2-boj-target-rate-again-20230928/" target="_blank" rel="follow" data-article-link="true">All Tokyo area September CPI data comes in way above the 2% BOJ target rate. Again.</a></li></ul><p>Officials from the Bank of Japan have been insistent that inflation would begin to fall back from September/October, today's data will give a little more insight into how that forecast is tracking.</p><ul><li>This snapshot from the ForexLive economic data calendar, <a href="https://www.forexlive.com/EconomicCalendar" target="_blank" title="Click here!">access it here</a>.</li><li>The times in the left-most column are GMT.</li><li>The numbers in the right-most column are the 'prior' (previous month/quarter as the case may be) result. The number in the column next to that, where there is a number, is the consensus median expected.</li></ul>

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.