The focus in the week ahead will be on the third-quarter Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) due on Thursday. The Bureau for Economic Research (BER) at Stellenbosch University said the QES provides an estimate of non-agricultural formal employment and income trends the country.

In their opinion the temporary jobs created to run the May election and boosted QES employment in the second quarter, is likely to fall away in the third quarter. ..

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