Inflation—the Fed’s primary bugbear for most of the past four years—has come a long way. The year-over-year increase in the personal-consumption expenditures price index, wh

Japan’s key inflation gauge held above the central bank’s target even as price gains moderated a tad, in data largely supporting the central bank’s view that underlying inflation remains solid.

Japan's core consumer prices in October rose 2.3% from a year earlier, slowing from September's pace but continuing to exceed the central bank's 2% target in a sign conditions for further interest rate hikes were falling in place.