Australia’s first-quarter gross domestic product expanded by 2.3% year-on-year, just slightly below analyst expectations. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast an expansion of 2.4%, compared to the 2.7% expansion in the fourth quarter of 2022. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, GDP grew by 0.2%, compared to the 0.3% expected in the Reuters poll. Katherine Keenan, head of National Accounts at Australia’s Bureau of Statistics, said: “This is the sixth straight rise in quarterly GDP, but the slowest growth since the Covid-19 Delta lockdowns in September quarter 2021.” “Private and public gross fixed capital formation ... (full story)