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Your economic data/event calendar for today 15 August 2016
Welcome to another week after a wonderful week-end of sport. Congrats to all the winning Olympians and Pakistan cricketers. I’ll skip over the football results seeing as my team have yet to win a game but I hope your sides are doing better.

Our live blog is following reaction after the Japanese economy expands just 0.2 percent on an annualized basis.

Japan industrial production June  final report 15 Au
gust 2016
– yy -1.5% vs -1.9% prev
– capacity utilization mm +1.5% vs -2.4% prev
Mixed final data but not going to move prices. Posting for info.

Gold prices can go nowhere but up as central banks around the world try their utmost to spur inflation, gold market expert Jim Rickards said.

Weekend data from the People’s Bank of China
– PBOC sold a net 190.5bn yuan worth of foreign exchange on July
– That’s according to Reuters calculations
Quite a big jump from recent months:

Panic ensued at John F.

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Forex news for Asia trading Monday 15 August 2016
Weekend:
Whether it was the still lingering weekend, the northern summer, the Olympics, or all (or maybe none) of those, the week got off to a subdued start here in Asia. Ranges for the currencies were small.