“抛售美元”交易失宠 机构调整新兴市场资产布局

Group 1 - The core viewpoint is that the recent rebound of the US dollar has led some emerging market investors to believe that the dollar will continue to strengthen in the coming months, with the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index rising by 2.7% in July, ending a six-month decline, while the MSCI Emerging Markets Currency Index fell by 1.2% [1] - Barclays advises clients to avoid shorting the dollar against Asian currencies and instead recommends going long on the dollar against certain low-yielding currencies in the region, indicating a cautious stance on betting against the dollar during the summer [1] - Barclays prefers to completely avoid relative value trades involving the dollar, such as betting on the Singapore dollar weakening against the renminbi or shorting the Thai baht against the Korean won [1] Group 2 - Fidelity International suggests that the attractiveness of the dollar as a funding currency for arbitrage trades is declining due to the potential for US interest rates to remain high for an extended period, recommending consideration of lower-cost alternative funding currencies [2] - T. Rowe Price Group favors dollar-denominated emerging market bonds over local currency bonds as a tactical trade, noting that last month, emerging market dollar bonds outperformed local currency bonds with a return of 0.9% compared to -0.9% for local currency bonds [2] - T. Rowe Price's fund manager in Hong Kong expresses a preference for holding dollar-denominated emerging market bonds due to their more attractive yields, while indicating that the dollar may enter a consolidation phase over the next three to six months, posing challenges for local currency bond returns [2]