Corporate-service prices rose in December at close to their fastest pace in 15 years, as higher oil costs prompted businesses to charge clients more.
The prices that companies pay for services such as transportation and rent climbed 1.4 percent from a year earlier, the same pace as October and November and near a 15-year high of 1.5 percent reached in May and June, the Bank of Japan said Monday.
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