Japan Producer Prices Sink 0.4% In October

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Japan Producer Prices Sink 0.4% In October

(RTTNews) - Producer prices in Japan were down 0.4 percent on month in October, the Bank of Japan said on Monday - after easing an upwardly revised 0.2 percent in September (originally -0.3 percent).

On a yearly basis, producer prices rose 0.8 percent - slowing from the upwardly revised 2.2 percent in the previous month (originally 2.0 percent).

Export prices rose 0.1 percent on month and 1.0 percent on year, the central bank said, while import prices gained 1.3 percent on month and plummeted 12/5 percent on year.

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