Japan’s core inflation beat expectations and came in at 3% in February, government data showed on Friday, bolstering the case ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's core inflation hit 3.0% in February and an index stripping away the effect of fuel rose at the fastest pace in nearly a year, a sign of broadening price pressure that ...

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 ...

TOKYO, March 28 (Reuters) - Core consumer inflation in Japan's capital stayed above the ... keeping alive market expectations of a near-term interest rate hike. Service-sector inflation also ...

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

core core, goods, and services CPIs. "The strength in underlying inflation in February suggests that the Bank of Japan could hike rates at its next meeting in May but we still expect that ...

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.

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 ...

Stronger-than-expected Tokyo consumer price inflation and signs of broadening pressures support our long-held view that the ...

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 ...