TOKYO – Japan's wholesale prices rose 5.8 percent in April from a year earlier, but the pace slowed for the fourth straight month, data showed on Monday, suggesting that consumer inflation will begin to moderate as cost-push pressures ease. The rise in the corporate goods price index (CGPI), which measures the price companies charge each other for their goods and services, followed a 7.4 percent annual increase in March. The yen-denominated import price index fell 2.9 percent in April from a year earlier after a revised 9.

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