Today’s trade data disappointed, with stronger manufacturing activity among many of China’s key trading partners failing to lift export growth and import growth falling on the back of the renewed drop in global commodity prices. More positively though, the FX reserves data published over the weekend suggest that the People’s Bank was able to reduce its intervention last month thanks to a larger trade surplus and stable capital outflows.
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