Recession risk forces BOJ to row back on inflation goal

TOKYO (Reuters) - The widening economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak and soft consumption are forcing the Bank of Japan to message more strongly that it is no longer inclined to chase its elusive 2% inflation target, sources familiar with its thinking say.After years of trying to vanquish deflation by setting an ambitious price goal, Japan's waning recovery prospects and a dwindling policy tool-kit have made the BOJ more open to conceding that the best it can do is to keep the economy..