BERLIN (Reuters) -German annual inflation slowed in January but was still higher than expected by analysts and well above the European Central Bank’s price stability target of 2% for the euro zone as a whole, preliminary data showed on Monday. Consumer prices, harmonised to make them comparable with inflation data from other European Union countries (HICP), rose 5.1% year on year compared with 5.7% in December, the Federal Statistics Office said. The national consumer price index (CPI) rose by 4.9% on an annual basis, easing from 5.3% in December. A Reuters poll of analysts had forecast the CP…