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...Japan’s core measure of consumer inflation, excluding fresh food and energy, rose more than 4 per cent in April for the first time in nearly 42 years....
...As the FT’s Leo Lewis wrote, the JPX 400 would “promote corporate value creation, efficient capital use and governance improvements....
...In addition to the Myanmar crisis, the bloc is facing issues over food and energy security and rebuilding severed supply chains....
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...If companies fail to raise wages more substantially now that prices are rising steeply in sensitive areas like fresh food, they will be accused of breaking a social contract....
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