TOKYO : Japan's core consumer inflation likely cooled for the second straight month in October on slower growth in energy prices, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. The core consumer price index (CPI), which includes oil products but excludes fresh food prices, was expected to have risen 2.2 per cent in October from a year earlier, from 2.4 per cent growth in September, a poll of 19 economist showed. "The base effect of the government's halving of subsidies for electricity and city gas bills in

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