Japan's inflation-adjusted real wages showed no growth in April

Omkar Godbole FXStreet Contributor

Japanese workers' inflation-adjusted real wages showed no growth in April, indicating consumer spending could remain weak in the near future.

The unchanged reading comes after a downwardly revised 0.7 percent annual increase in real wages in March. Further, nominal wages rose at an annualised rate of 0.8 percent in April, slower than a downwardly revised 2.0 percent annual gain in March.

The drop in real wages also indicates the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) 2 percent inflation target will likely remain elusive for a long time.

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Omkar Godbole, editor and analyst, joined FXStreet after four years as a research analyst at several Indian brokerage companies.

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