Final demand producer prices in Australia were up 0.5 percent on quarter in the first quarter of 2015, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Friday – accelerating from the 0.1 percent increase in the three months prior.

On a yearly basis, producer prices gained 0.7 percent, slowing from the 1.1 percent gain in Q4.

Intermediate demand producer prices fell 0.3 percent on quarter and 1.0 percent on year, while preliminary demand producer prices tumbled 0.8 percent on quarter and 2.3 percent on year.

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