Japan's core inflation rate decelerated in February, government data showed Friday, with prices excluding fresh food rising 3.0 percent year-on-year in the world's fourth-largest economy. The core ...

According to government data released on Friday, Japan’s core inflation rose 3% in February, exceeding economists’ ...

Japan's core inflation beat expectations and came in at 3% in February, government data showed on Friday, bolstering the case for further interest rate hikes. The core inflation figure — which ...

That kept core inflation above the BOJ's 2% target ... underlying inflation in February suggests that the Bank of Japan could hike rates at its next meeting in May but we still expect that ...

Japan’s core inflation rate, which excludes fresh food but includes fuel costs, slowed to 3% in February from 3.2% in January, but still exceeded forecasts of 2.9%. This marked the second ...

Overall, both indices remained well above the Bank of Japan's 2% inflation target, validating the central bank chief Haruhiko Kuroda's declaration of victory over decades of defla ...

complicating the central bank's decision on how soon to raise interest rates. The slowdown in so-called "core core" inflation, which is closely watched by the Bank of Japan as a key gauge of ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Core consumer inflation in Japan's capital stayed above the central ... keeping alive market expectations of a near-term interest rate hike. Service-sector inflation also perked ...

The leading indicator for nationwide inflation is likely to keep BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda mulling over the right timing for ...

Core consumer inflation in Japan's capital stayed above ... A Reuters poll showed many analysts expect the Bank of Japan's next rate hike to come in the third quarter, most likely in July.