US consumers increasingly fear Donald Trump’s tariffs will drive up inflation, which worried US markets on Friday. Trump reverses a plan to put tariffs on parcel imports. The Reserve Bank of India cuts rates. And China’s CPI inflation blipped up in January.

In our bonus deep dive interview, ANZ’s Head of Australian Economics Adam Boyton finds some surprising strength in private sector job creation. 

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