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Wall Street Journal
8 hours ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Inflation Expectations Fall in New York Fed Survey
Shoppers at a mall in Pennsylvania. Retailers have been warning of price rises. (Rachel Wisniewski/Reuters)
Wall Street Journal
11 hours ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Inflation Expectations Fall, in New York Fed Survey
Shoppers at a mall in Pennsylvania. Retailers have been warning of price rises. (Rachel Wisniewski/Reuters)
Times
20-05-2025
- Business
- Times
Japan raids its emergency rice stocks amid anger over prices
Japan will release hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rice from emergency stockpiles as anger grows over shortages causing big price rises. Tokyo said it would raid its rice banks in July to put an extra 300,000 tonnes in shops which are running out of the country's basic food. An extra 200,000 tonnes was released in March, but distribution bottlenecks mean prices have not dropped and stores said they are struggling to meet demand. Some schools have cut back on serving rice with lunch, concerned that they will no longer be able to afford it. People have begun hoarding rice, and the analyst Shunsuke Orikasa, of the Distribution Economics Institute of Japan, told the public broadcaster NHK that shoppers must stop panic-buying. At one supermarket
