MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.8 percent on Friday, on track for a weekly loss of around 2.7 percent. Japan’s Nikkei stock average (.N225) lost 0.9 percent, shedding 0.6 percent for the week and pulling away from Thursday’s seven-year closing high. Data released before the market opened showed Japan’s annual core consumer inflation eased in August, in another sign that the Bank of Japan could be forced into additional easing steps to meet its 2 percent inflation goal sometime next fiscal year.