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	Inflation would reach 0.7 per cent in the current financial year to March 2014, it said, compared with its July estimation of 0.6 percent.</div>
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	The bank said it expected the rise in the consumer price index to increase to 1.3 per cent in the next financial year through March 2015, it said in a semi-annual report released on Thursday.//DPA</div>

Bank of Japan maintains inflation outlook amid monetary easing

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Bank of Japan maintains inflation outlook amid monetary easing

Tokyo - The Bank of Japan on Thursday maintained its forecast, predicting that long-standing deflation would be replaced by a 1.9-per-cent annual rise in the consumer price index by the financial year starting March 2015.

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