A Rotation Trade Hidden in the Fed Talk

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The market will be transfixed on the news and releases in the day ahead but below the surface a little-talked-about trade might be poised to have a bigger impact.

Chinese shares have surged 6% in the past week and some related products have seen massive volume spikes. Rumors of market liberalizations are fuelling the gains but we wonder where the money is coming from.

Over the last two years money flooded into Europe and propped up the euro but that money might be looking for a new home. Fund managers like Bill Gross have proclaimed the end of the bull market in periphery bonds as Spanish 10-year yields fall below 2.5%. Lately, equities have also cooled off.

Could that hot money be leaving Europe and heading for China? That sort of flow would help explain the persistent weakness in the euro and strength in the dollar.

It's something to monitor but for now the focus now shifts to a number of major releases. Markets will begin to simmer with the release of June prelim Japanese industrial production at 2350 GMT. The consensus is -1.2% m/m and -5.2% y/y. Soft employment and retail sales data yesterday raised risks for further easing from the BOJ and kept the yen under pressure despite risk aversion.

That will be followed by German CPI, ADP employment, US GDP and the FOMC decision. Markets may be hesitant to react to any single release but watch for an extended move over the following days as traders digest the news.

Ashraf previewed those events and more earlier.