Which Oil state say no talks on replacing dollar lately?
Oil states say no talks on replacing dollar By Simon Rabinotvitch and Wayne Cole Simon Rabinotvitch And Wayne Cole – 13 mins ago ISTANBUL/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Big oil producing nations denied a British newspaper report on Tuesday that Gulf Arab states were in secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France to replace the U.S. dollar with a basket of currencies in trading oil. The dollar eased in response to the report, which was written by The Independent’s Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk and cited unidentified sources in Gulf Arab states and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong. It said the proposal was for trade in crude oil to move over nine years to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen, the Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, which includes Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The report coincides with a wider debate on the role of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, which has come under quest
