Japan – same price/jobs story in PMI
Services sentiment in the PMI is recovering from the October drop, but not as quickly as in other surveys. The tone on jobs and prices survived that dip, and concerns about "labour constraints and the impact of rising costs", with feed through to output prices, were prominent again in December.
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