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Housing inflation is a persistent thorn in the RBA’s side

This week’s stronger-than-expected CPI inflation print from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has economists tipping near-term interest rate hikes. To recap, the policy-relevant trimmed mean inflation printed at 3.6% year-over-year, above forecasts of 3.5%: The monthly and quarterly pace of trimmed mean inflation has also accelerated: Australia now has one of the strongest-growing trimmed…

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Australian Market Modestly Higher

(RTTNews) - The Australian stock market is trading modestly higher on Friday, extending the losses in the previous two sessions, following the broadly positive cues from Wall Street overnight.

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