BELGIAN WHOLESALE PRICES FALL IN JANUARY

  Belgian wholesale prices fell by 5.9
  pct in January from a year earlier after a 5.7 pct year on year
  fall in December, figures from the economics ministry show.
      A ministry spokesman said the wholesale price index, base
  1953 and excluding value added tax, stood at 250.9 in January.
  This compared with 251.9 in December, 265.5 in Janua~y, 1986
  and 267.2 in December, 1985.
      In January 1986, wholesale prices were 3.9 pct lower than a
  year earlier.
  

