Japan’s Core Prices to See First Rise in 18 Months, Export Growth to Slow: Reuters Poll

Japan’s Core Prices to See First Rise in 18 Months, Export Growth to Slow: Reuters Poll
A worker walks between shipping containers at a port in Tokyo, Japan, on March 22, 2017. Issei Kato/Reuters
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TOKYO—Japan’s exports likely grew at the slowest pace in seven months in September while core consumer prices turned positive for the first time since early last year, a Reuters poll showed, in a sign of the evolving economic impact of the COVID-19 health crisis.

The mixed batch of data will likely highlight pressures Japan’s export-reliant economy faces from a surge in global raw material prices as well as coronavirus-linked output and supply chain disruptions, which are clouding the overseas demand outlook.