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Jacob Shteyman

Rate cut looms as inflation result brings RBA 'comfort'

Food, housing and health costs drove headline inflation higher in the 12 months to June. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Mortgage holders can all but lock in a rate cut in less than two weeks after the central bank's preferred measure of inflation fell to its lowest level in three-and-a-half years.

Trimmed mean inflation - which omits volatile items to measure underlying growth in prices - was 0.6 per cent in the June quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported on Wednesday.

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