Japan March core CPI rises 2.2% on-year, above expectations

Japan's core consumer price index for March rose 2.2 percent from a year earlier, topping expectations for a 2.1 percent rise from a Reuters poll. Read More Japan's downgrade: Why no one seems to care. Japan's industrial production fell 0.3 percent in March, but that was still well above the 2.3 percent decline that had been forecast in a Reuters poll, according to...