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Russia moves away from the $ in earnest - The $ is getting vulnerable!
Ruble Gold and oil.
The Russian Trading System, Russia's premier stock market, announced Monday
that it would start trading in gold, oil and oil products on June 8th.
The
stock exchange also said it would start trading in futures and options on oil
and oil derivatives, including Urals brand, diesel fuel, jet fuel and fuel
oil. Trade will be in rubles based on prices calculated by the Platts agency.
The derivatives section of the RTS, known by its Russian acronym Forts, will
trade futures and options on gold in rubles based on the London Stock Exchange
evening fixing rate.
From the end of this week onwards the Ruble road will be a most interesting
one. The importance of these moves is the fact that the Ruble is entering the
global monetary system as a convertible currency. This has to cause a measure
of attrition to the extent the U.S.$ is used. It will take some time before
this is measurable, but it will be a steady process. Nations outside the U.S.
are turning down these roads because of their diminishing confidence in the
U.S.$.
Further switches from the $
In an extraordinary set of moves Russia has further confirmed our story of
last week concerning the Stabilization fund. Could it be these switches that
held the $ week over the last few weeks?
Sergei Ignatyev, chairman of the central bank, said 50% of Russia's foreign
exchange reserves are now held in the U.S.$, with 40% in the € and the
remainder in the Pound Sterling, a mirror image of the Stabilization Fund.
Previously it was believed that just 25-30% of the reserves were in the €,
with virtually all the remainder in the U.S. $. The action could well prove
to be the pathfinder for other nations intending to diversify from the U.S.$.
Russia's
central bank now boasts the world's fourth-largest reserves, after China, Japan
and South Korea, with its gold and forex holdings rising by 36% so far this
year to $247bn.
Will Middle Eastern oil exporters follow suit now after leading us to believe
they will? The most likely trio of these is the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait
and Qatar.
It is certainly confirming a trend shift away from the U.S.$. Asian countries
may well join the queue
39% of Russia's imports came from the Eurozone in 2005, against just 4% from
the US. The globe's central banks together hold $4,250bn of reserves. Were
these to move away from the dollar we will go to the brink of the worst foreign
exchange situation the U.S.$ and for that matter any currency has ever seen
since the last World War!
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