Australia’s headline inflation rate held steady at a four-year low of 2.4% in the March quarter, according to official data, ...

Regulators, government officials and investors would like to think the present financial turbulence is a passing phase, that “normalcy” could return, but they fear a fundamental shift has taken place.

The reading contrasts with Chinese officials' conviction that the world's second-largest economy is well placed to absorb the US trade shock and suggests domestic demand remains weak as factory owners ...