EXPERT INTERVIEW: US dollar positions as a world reserve currency are invulnerable

06.11.08 21:13
/IRBIS, November 6, 2008/ - October 29 during the meeting of the Prime Minister of state council of China Wen Jiabao with the head of Russian Government, Vladimir Putin appealed to reject form using the US dollar while concluding trade deals between China and Russia. Earlier Argentina and Brazil announced that since October 13, 2008 they reject form American dollar in trade calculations. Moreover September 17, 2008 Ministers of Finance of the governments, which enter Collaboration Council of Persian Gulf countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE) determined 2010 as the period to introduce new general currency and rejection of the US dollar. Analysts, participated in the current expert interview of IRBIS Information Agency of Financial Markets, consider that the tendency of dollar rejection in trade calculations won't continue and probability of other world reserve currency appearance is rather low. Experts are agreeing on the fact that: today the USA economy, notwithstanding serious problems in financial sector, is still the most developed in the world scale and there has been no yet an equivalent to it. More detailed information on expert interview, dated November 6, 2008 is available at http://www.kase.kz/mix/exp_061108.pdf. The expert interview is conducted weekly on the basis of the most acute questions of domestic and world markets development. Participants of the interview are experts of leading Kazakhstan professional participants of financial markets. For additional information: Tel.: (727) 237 53 41, 237 53 28 [2008-11-06]