This is Data week for South Africa due out this week:
Medium Term Budget Statement Tuesday at 14h00
CPI for September on Wednesday at 11h30
PPI for September on Thursday at 9h30
M3 for September on Thursday
As well as PSCE for September and finally on Friday we have Trade Balance for September.

Should be an interesting week take care out there.

I can not resist giving links to Andy Kessler's posts, this one is a brilliant look at telecoms, data and innovation.
The money quite: "So now the FCC and its new Chairman Julius Genachowski are getting involved. Usually this means a set of convoluted rules to make up for past errors in allocating scarce resources that—in the name of "fairness"—end up creating a new mess."

Read the whole thing here : http://www.andykessler.com/andy_kessler/2009/08/wsj-why-att-killed-googl...

Data releases for the forthcoming week:
GDP
Buildings completed
Building plans passed
All in all interesting indicators. Efficient group ( http://www.efgroup.co.za/) has the following expectations:

GDP -3.5%
Buildings completed 2.2%
Building plans passed 6.6%

Insofar as GDP is concerned they see most sectors under pressure and that will reflect in negative growth.