Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Thursday it was too early to conclude that sustained achievement of the central bank's 2 per cent inflation target can be foreseen, stressing the need to scrutinise more data on the wage outlook. "I don't think we are there yet," Ueda told a news conference after attending the G20 finance leaders' meeting in Sao Paulo, when asked whether achievement of the price goal was already in sight. "We need to confirm whether a positive wage-inflation cycle would kick off and strengthen," Ueda said, adding that companies' annual wage negotiations with unions later this month would be ... (full story)