The world’s oil producers, as well as China and France, are planning to end using the dollar as the currency to buy and sell oil, the Independent newspaper reported.

The move would see oil priced not in dollars but in a unit based on a basket of currencies including the Chinese yuan, the Japanese yen, and a new currency intended for use by the Gulf emirates, according to a report in Tuesday’s Independent newspaper. The paper added that the transistion from the dollar to a new currency will take almost a decade.

Finance ministers and central bankers have held meetings in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to discuss the idea, which the Americans are aware of, the Independent said.

“Eventually there will be a move to non-dollar commodity contracts, and it may be the next big risk for the dollar,” Ben Simpfendorfer, chief China economist for Royal Bank of Scotland, told Bloomberg. “At the same time, I don’t want to overplay the importance of the story. There’s no credible sources there.”

The financial crisis has intensified speculation about the eventual demise of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. In the last six months, Russia, Brazil, India and China have already discussed buying each other’s debt as a way of cutting their dependence on the dollar, while the United Nations last month proposed a new global currency to replace the greenback.

Source/Full Story:  Telegraph

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