Afterpay APT.AX jumped as much as 6%, recovering from a more than 8.5% drop in the previous session. 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.