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Alan Kohler on how AI's moving interest rates
There’s been another interest rate rise, pushing it to the highest it’s been in 15 years. It’s partly thanks to Trump’s war in Iran fuelling global inflation, but the conflict is not the only thing putting pressure on interest rates. Artificial Intelligence is a factor too. Today, the ABC’s finance expert Alan Kohler on how AI impact rates and why it might also be the reason they fall again Featured: Alan Kohler, ABC News Finance presenter
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There's been another rate rise, thanks partly to Trump's war in Iran. But the conflict is not the only thing putting pressure on interest rates. artificial intelligence is a factor too. Today the ABC's finance expert Alan Coller
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