Japan’s producer price index for May rose 2.7 pct from a year before, up for the 17th straight month, the Bank of Japan said Tuesday.
Japan’s producer price index for May rose 2.7 pct from a year before, up for the 17th straight month, the Bank of Japan said Tuesday.
The producer price index for May stood at 101.1 against 100 for the base year of 2015. The rise mainly reflected higher crude oil and nonferrous metal prices, according to the central bank.
The size of increase was 0.6 percentage point larger than the previous month’s revised figure, marking the first acceleration in the growth pace in seven months.
