Core inflation in Australia slowed to a three-year low in the first quarter as costs in the services sector cooled markedly, ...

This was higher than the Reuters expectations of a 2.3% climb, and unchanged than the 2.4% rise in the last quarter of 2024.

Australia Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the market was justified to expect more interest rate cuts after annual core inflation ...

The key trimmed mean measure of core inflation increased by 0.7% in the quarter, again above forecasts of a 0.6% gain. The ...

With the key measures of inflation back within the Reserve Bank’s target band, expectations are growing for a second rate cut ...

Australians vote Saturday in general elections being dominated by the soaring cost of living, the economy, energy and China.

The AUD/USD pair was trading at 0.6410, much higher than the year-to-date low of 0.5918. What next for the Australian dollar?

Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 is on track to open higher ahead of the release of inflation data that economists expect will support a central-bank interest-rate cut next month.

Australias CPI during the March quarter 2025 is a mixed bag. The CPI rose 0.9% quarter-on-quarter, sharply higher than the 0.2% rise in the preceding quarter. However, year-over-year CPI remained flat ...

CBA has also labelled a May rate cut a “done deal”, although this is based on Australia’s all important trimmed mean inflation rate, which the RBA uses when making rate decsions to increase ...

Australian inflation slowed in the first quarter of 2025, supporting the case for the country’s central bank to keep cutting interest rates next month.

Inflation was expected to reach 2.5 per cent ... The global ruptures have sparked a protectionist sentiment in Australia, boosting Labor’s polling numbers as the public cling to stability.