TOKYO: Japan’s wholesale inflation remained near record-high levels in March, as the Ukraine crisis and a weak yen pushed up fuel and raw material costs, data show, adding strains to the resource-poor economy heavily reliant on imports.
While rising wholesale prices will help accelerate consumer inflation toward the central bank’s elusive 2% target, it could hurt an economy still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, analysts said.
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