Top miners BHP Group BHP.AX and Rio Tinto RIO.AX lost 0.8% and 0.4%, respectively. By Savyata Mishra May 12 (Reuters) - Australian shares fell on Wednesday, dragged down by financials and miners, as global investors fretted over whether a potential spike in U.S. inflation could force the Federal Reserve to raise rates earlier than planned. "The last two-three years, buying the dip in growth/tech stocks has been a winning strategy and such that we are getting investors trying to pick the bottom," said Mathan Somasundaram, founder of Deep Data Analytics.