One of the more amusing comments overnight came from Bank of America, which now predicts that China’s export growth will be boosted by iPhone 6 by 1% per month through year-end. Whether or not this is accurate is irrelevant, but we are happy that unlike before, BofA has finally figured out that iPhone sales are positive for Chinese GDP, not US, which was the case with the release of the iPhone 4 and 5, when clueless strategists all came out boosting their US (!) GDP forecasts on the iPhone release. We note this because the long-awaited release of Apple’s new iPhone will certainly grab some attention tomorrow. According to a BofA poll last week and of the 124 respondents surveyed, 66% of those have noted that they are going to buy the new iPhone and of those planning to buy 75% of those will be replacing their iPhone 5/5s.
In terms of economic data, after a quiet Money when the only release is the consumer credit data, on Tuesday we get the JOLTS report and UK Industrial Production are the main releases of the day. On Wednesday, we will get China’s credit growth stats for August which will be interesting after a sharp decline in July. US wholesale inventories and French IP are also due on Wednesday. This then brings us to Thursday where Draghi is expected to give a keynote speech at a eurofi forum in Milan. We will also get inflation readings from China, France and Germany on Thursday. On Friday, the latest US retail sales data as well as U of Michigan consumer sentiment for September are due. We will also get IP data from the euro area and Italy but given deepening.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on 09/08/2014.
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