Japan Retail Prices, Employment, Income and Consumption October 2007

Japan's economy showed its first signs of inflation this year after food and energy prices both rose in October. Core consumer prices, which exclude fresh food, climbed 0.1 percent in October from a year earlier, the first increase since December 2006, the statistics bureau said today in Tokyo, while the index excluding food and energy continued to fall (by 0,3%).Claus - who is busy with exams