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This monthly survey asks questions about year-ahead cost expectations and the factors influencing price changes, such as profit, sales levels, etc. The survey goes straight to businesses - the price setters - rather than to consumers or households, to understand their expectations of the price level changes.
Business confidence among major Japanese manufacturers worsened to 8 in September from 9 three months earlier, the Bank of Japan s Tankan survey shows.