The corporate goods price index fell 0.9 percent in February from a year earlier, the Bank of Japan said in a preliminary report Thursday.
The CGPI reading came to 95.3 against the base of 100 for 2000, the central bank said. The margin of decline was smaller due to rises in crude oil prices than in January, when it dropped by 1 percent.
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