FT: Inflation worries Japanese rush to buy gold

Retail price hits record high above ¥10,000 per gramme as household attitudes to risk shift after years of deflation

Inflation worries fuel Japanese rush to buy gold

The FT

Analysts say consumers until now had not had a strong incentive to move assets out of cash © Masafumi Ogana/The Yomiuri Shimbun via Reuters

The retail price of gold in Japan has jumped to an all-time high as the yen extends its historic slide against the US dollar and cash-laden households rush to fin…