Japan PPI for December (PPI is wholesale, business level inflation, not consumer level)

-0.6% m/m

  • expected -0.3% m/m, prior -0.3%

1.5% y/y

  • expected 1.8% y/y, prior 2.3%

As part of this data release is 'domestic final goods prices' (which loosely correlates with the CPI:

  • -0.7% y/y