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We begin the week with disappointing data from China. China missed economist expectations for retail sales and industrial production. Japan also missed GDP forecast, on the downside.

After the “surprise” lower inflation print on Wednesday caused a sell-off the like of which we hadn’t seen since May as the last remaining inflation trades were unwound on the

Big news yesterday came in the form of softer-than-expected US inflation, which triggered a widespread rally in risk driven assets and a sell-off of USD. US consumer prices were unchanged

Last week was all about the US employment data and it did not fail to disappoint

Today seems to be shaping up to be a very quiet trading session, with the broader market still in shock over Friday’s US nonfarm payrolls release that dampened talk of

The local currency has also been helped by a weaker dollar ahead of this afternoon’s US job report, with the rand breaking through the 16.60/$ level this morning