Japan households' inflation expectation rose slightly in September

<ul><li>86.8% of households expect prices to rise a year from now (previously 86.3% in June)</li><li>Japanese households expect inflation to rise by average of 10.7% a year from now (previously 10.5%)</li><li>80.7% of households expect prices to rise 5 years from now (previously 79.0%)</li><li>Japanese households expect inflation to rise by average of 8.0% 5 years from now (previously 7.5%)</li></ul><p>That feeds into a stronger inflation outlook and will likely convince the BOJ to up its inflation forecasts in their meeting latest this month – something which markets are already expecting.</p>

This article was written by Justin Low at www.forexlive.com.