New 'Special Drawing Rights' Bonds sold

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  1. Roswell Crash Survivor

    Roswell Crash Survivor Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    Possibly another important step towards reducing the global dependence on the US Dollar as a reserve currency and standard of value.

    "World Bank Bond Issue Gives China Chance to Promote Yuan"
    http://www.wsj.com/articles/world-bank-bond-issue-gives-china-chance-to-promote-yuan-1472643973

    "World Bank backs China's push to challenge US dollar dominance by selling SDR bonds ahead of G20 summit"
    http://www.scmp.com/news/china/econ...cks-chinas-push-challenge-us-dollar-dominance

    For those who are wondering what an SDR is composed of:

    Source: http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2015/pr15543.htm
     
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    Shouldnt the headline for this be why is the pound still in there?
     
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    Headline: The Pound Sterling, the worst asset of 2016?
    Fineprint: also, renminbi bends over uncle Sam once more.
     
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    Appendix 1

    Over subscribed 4:1

    Winning bidders (fictional :))

    Bank of China
    Chinese Industrial Bank
    Chinese commercial bank
    Development bank of China

    All bid the max allowed for the measly $700m lol
     
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    This is a list of the most traded currencies. Of interest is that the Australian Dollar is in the top 5 traded currencies in the world but the Drawing Rights Bonds remove the Australian dollar and replace it with the Yuan.

    1. United States dollar USD ($)
    2. Euro EUR ()
    3. Japanese yen JPY ()
    4. Pound sterling GBP ()
    5. Australian dollar AUD ($)
    6. Canadian dollar CAD ($)
    7. Swiss franc CHF (Fr)
    8. Chinese yuan CNY ()
     
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    ^^ a reserve currency is meant be stable right

    Also I think I am looking at the same list, it NZ$ is 11th above HK$ at 13th and Korean Won at 15th there must be guidelines that it's using that is skewing the numbers.
     
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    When i buy a newspaper under the clocks at Flinders St, do i offer the paper boy an SDR?

    ...and how does he make change?

    OC
     
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    As long the paperboy is willing to accept, it is not an issue. As for getting change well....

    I wouldn't expect the paperboy to carry around enough cash to give you change, just like if you gave him a 400oz Gold bar, $1m US T-Bill or $100,000 Australian issued bonds either...

    Maybe you can accept a personal cheque or an IOU written on the newspaper.
     
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    "or an IOU written on the newspaper."


    That's what the Yanks have been doing for the past 25 years or more. And the mugs of this world are still buying them.

    OC
     
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    Be fair US currency use high grade new cotton pulp, newspaper is a bit cheaper :)
     
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    You could pay in Bitcoin to whoever is prepared to accept it. More likely than paying in SDR.
     
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    I was thinking the same thing.
     
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    Maybe they should also add Gold and BTC into the SDR basket :D

    Interesting how small the Chinese Yuan still is in the SDR basket, that must piss them off :p
     
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