© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A woman looks at clothes at a Fast Retailing’s Uniqlo store in Tokyo, Japan, January 24, 2017. Picture taken on January 24, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
TOKYO (Reuters) – The ratio of Japanese households expecting prices to rise a year from now stood at 85.7% in March, rising from 85.0% in December, a Bank of Japan (BOJ) quarterly survey showed on Wednesday.
The ratio of households expecting prices to rise five years from now came to 75.4%, slightly down from 76.7% three months ago, the survey showed.
The quarterly BOJ survey on households is among data closely watched by the central bank to determine the outlook for inflation.
