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By Leika Kihara
TOKYO, March 10 (Reuters) - Japan's wholesale prices
rose 8.2% in February from a year earlier, data showed on
Friday, marking the second straight month of year-on-year
slowdown in a sign the impact of past spikes in raw material
costs is fading.
The increase in the corporate goods price index (CGPI),
which measures the price companies charge each other for their
goods and services, was smaller than a median market forecast
for a 8.4% gain and followed a 9.5% rise in January.
The slowdown in the pace of wholesale price increases
heightens the chance Japan's consumer inflation, which is now
running at double the central bank's 2% target, will likely
moderate in coming months.
(Reporting by Leika Kihara; Editing by Sam Holmes)
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