CPI inflation was unexpectedly low, the trade surplus unexpectedly high Delicious Digg Facebook reddit Technorati Michael Pettis | Sep 12, 2008 The stock markets have had a mixed week so far. On Monday the SSE Composite declined by 2.7%, before regaining a fraction of that on Tuesday to close up 0.1% and another 0.2% Wednesday. Banks and real estate developers again led the decline. Things weren’t helped by August car sales which, as I wrote Friday, Lehman Brothers had correctly predi