Economics
Australia’s Slowing Inflation Restrains Rate-Rise Bets: Economy
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Australia’s core inflation slowed last quarter, sending the currency lower as investors eased bets on the likelihood of an interest-rate increase.
The trimmed mean gauge of core prices rose 0.5 percent from the previous quarter, the Bureau of Statistics said in Sydney today, compared with the median forecast of 25 economists for a