Japan Jan wholesale prices rise 0.5 pct yr/yr

TOKYO Feb 10 (Reuters) - Japanese wholesale prices rose 0.5 percent in the year to January, Bank of Japan data showed on Friday, slowing from the previous month as energy prices eased due to a dip in global economic growth.

The rise was slightly less than a median forecast for a 0.8 percent annual increase in a Reuters poll and followed a revised 1.2 percent rise in the year to December.

Overall final goods prices -- the prices of finished products charged to businesses -- fell an annual 0.9 percent.

Domestic final goods prices, which loosely track the consumer price index, fell an annual 0.8 percent.

Details were as follows (preliminary, with percentage change; economists' median forecast in parentheses; previous figures may be revised):

JAN DEC NOV JAN INDEX Year-on-year +0.5(+0.8) +1.2 +1.6 104.5 Mth-on-mth -0.1(+0.1) 0.0 0.0 N/A To view the full tables, go to