Live: US stocks steady ahead of consumer inflation numbers, IMF says world economy set to slow in 2023

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US stocks are lacklustre ahead of tomorrow's inflation report and the International Monetary Fund has slashed its growth forecast for 2023. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live markets blog.

By Sue Lanninit was a lacklustre night on Wall Street as investors awaited tomorrow's release of the latest US consumer inflation figures.

The US Consumer Price Index is expected to cool to 0.2 per cent in March, and economists are tipping annual inflation to slow from 6 per cent to 5.2 per cent because of the Federal Reserve's string of interest rate rises. However core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, is predicted to rise from 5.5 per cent to 5.6 per cent.International Monetary Fund

expects global growth to slow below 3 per cent amid financial sector turmoil, high inflation, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and three years of COVID-19. And it has a pessimistic outlook for Australia, with its World Economic Outlook predicting the economic growth will grow by just 1.6 per cent this year.

 

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Gee didn't see that coming. Wait till the USA dollar crashes.

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