{"id":22723,"date":"2011-07-28T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/?p=15140"},"modified":"2011-07-28T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T13:23:00","slug":"japanese-retail-sales-see-1-1-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/07\/28\/japanese-retail-sales-see-1-1-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Retail Sales See 1.1% Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/profile-pics\/8.jpg\" width=\"120\"  alt=\"printprofile\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) published its latest findings on the island economy\u2019s change in retail sales since last month, presented in annualized format. The data revealed retail sales in Japan growing 1.1%, year-on-year, beating expectations for a 0.6% contraction.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-15140\"><\/span>The rise in consumer spending in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/2011\/07\/26\/bank-of-japan-intervention-rumored\/\">Japan <\/a>has been spurned by the steady strengthening felt in the value of the Japanese yen (JPY) versus its currency counterparts. Japanese citizens are carrying more buying power which has helped fuel their recovery from the damage wrought by the spring tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>Read more forex trading news on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/blog\/en\/\">forex blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) published its latest findings on the island economy\u2019s change in retail sales since last month, presented in annualized format. The data revealed retail sales in Japan growing 1.1%, year-on-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}